Escalante

Escalante is the 1,699th most common surname in the United States, shared by 20,688 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,400.

By the numbers

People: 20,688
Rank: 1,699th
How common: 1 in 14,400
Per 100,000: 6.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 89.7%
White, not Hispanic 5.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Escalante

Amat Escalante (born 1979)Spanish film director
Gonzalo Escalante (born 1993)Argentinian association football player
Jaime Escalante (1930–2010)educator from Bolivia
Francis Escalante Molina (born 1965)Apostolic Nuncio

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

Surnames like Escalante

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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.