Figueroa

Figueroa is the 310th most common surname in the United States, shared by 100,117 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,985.

By the numbers

People: 100,117
Rank: 310th
How common: 1 in 2,985
Per 100,000: 33.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from Galician

Borrowed from Spanish Figueroa, itself from Galician Figueroa.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 91.9%
White, not Hispanic 5.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Figueroa

Maynor Figueroa (born 1983)Honduran footballer
Don Elías Figueroa (born 1946)Chilean footballer
Óscar Figueroa (born 1983)Colombian weightlifter
Luciano Figueroa (born 1981)Argentine association football player
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones (1863–1950)Spanish diplomat and writer
Darío Figueroa (born 1978)Argentine association football player
Emiliano Figueroa (1866–1931)President of Chile
José Roberto Figueroa (1959–2020)Honduran footballer

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

Surnames like Figueroa

Figueiredo

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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.