Escobar

At the 2020 census, 68,460 Americans bore the surname Escobar — 476th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,366.

By the numbers

People: 68,460
Rank: 476th
How common: 1 in 4,366
Per 100,000: 22.9

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 Escobar described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 92.2%
White, not Hispanic 5.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Escobar

Pablo Escobar (1949–1993)Colombian drug lord
Andrés Escobar (1967–1994)Colombian footballer
Manolo Escobar (1931–2013)Spanish singer and actor
Fidel Escobar (born 1995)Panamanian association football player
Marisol Escobar (1930–2016)Venezuelan-American sculptor
Patricio Escobar (1843–1912)President of Paraguay
Daniela Escobar (born 1969)Brazilian actress
Sergi Escobar (born 1974)Spanish cyclist

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

Surnames like Escobar

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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.