Gongora

3,305 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gongora in the 2020 census, making it the 9,426th most common in the country. That is about one person in 90,400.

By the numbers

People: 3,305
Rank: 9,426th
How common: 1 in 90,400
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Góngora, itself of Basque origin.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 87.4%
White, not Hispanic 8.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Gongora

Luis de Góngora (1561–1627)Spanish Baroque lyric poet
Jorge Góngora (1906–1999)Peruvian footballer

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

Surnames like Gongora

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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.