Esquivel

36,172 people in the United States were counted with the surname Esquivel in the 2020 census, making it the 948th most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,263.

By the numbers

People: 36,172
Rank: 948th
How common: 1 in 8,263
Per 100,000: 12.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from Basque

Castilianized form of Basque Ezkibel.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 93.9%
White, not Hispanic 4.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Esquivel

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (born 1931)Argentine activist, architect and sculptor
Laura Esquivel (born 1950)Mexican writer
Miguel Ricardo de Álava y Esquivel (1772–1843)Spanish general;
Manuel Esquivel (1940–2022)Belizean politician
Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel (born 1940)Mexican bishop
Antonio María Esquivel (1806–1857)Spanish painter
Celso Esquivel (born 1981)Paraguayan footballer
Laura Esquivel (born 1994)Argentine actress and singer

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

Surnames like Esquivel

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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.