Diaz

Diaz is the 52nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 356,910 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 837.

By the numbers

People: 356,910
Rank: 52nd
How common: 1 in 837
Per 100,000: 119.4

Where the name comes from

From Spanish Díaz.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Diaz described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 91.9%
White, not Hispanic 5.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Diaz

Cameron Diaz (born 1972)American actress and model
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (died 1099)11th century Castilian nobleman and military leader
Porfirio Díaz (1830–1915)President of Mexico
Luis Díaz (born 1997)Colombian association football player
Ramón Díaz (born 1959)Argentine association football player and coach
Brahim Díaz (born 1999)Moroccan association football player
Mariano Díaz (born 1993)Spanish-Dominican Republic association football player
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz (1911–1979)56th President of Mexico

People named Diaz with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Diaz

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.