Fonseca

Fonseca is the 1,309th most common surname in the United States, shared by 26,380 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 11,300.

By the numbers

People: 26,380
Rank: 1,309th
How common: 1 in 11,300
Per 100,000: 8.8

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Fonseca.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 76.8%
White, not Hispanic 18.0%
Black, not Hispanic 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Fonseca

Deodoro da Fonseca (1827–1892)President of Brazil
Jorge Carlos Fonseca (born 1950)Cape Verdean politician and former president of Cape Verde
Lyndsy Fonseca (born 1987)American actress
Daniel Fonseca (born 1969)Uruguayan footballer
Paulo Fonseca (born 1973)Portuguese football player and manager
Rolando Fonseca (born 1974)Costa Rican footballer
Rubem Fonseca (1925–2020)Brazilian writer and screenwriter
Francisco Fonseca (born 1979)Mexican footballer

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

Surnames like Fonseca

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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.