Espiritu

At the 2020 census, 4,781 Americans bore the surname Espiritu — 6,778th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 62,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,781
Rank: 6,778th
How common: 1 in 62,500
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Filipino Christian surname, or anglicization of Spanish Espíritu, both references to the Holy Spirit.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 69.5%
Hispanic or Latino 21.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
White, not Hispanic 4.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.06%

Surnames like Espiritu

Try it on yourself

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.