Guevara

48,503 people in the United States were counted with the surname Guevara in the 2020 census, making it the 687th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,162.

By the numbers

People: 48,503
Rank: 687th
How common: 1 in 6,162
Per 100,000: 16.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from Basque

Borrowing from Spanish Guevara, from Basque.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 91.6%
White, not Hispanic 4.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Guevara

Che Guevara (1928–1967)Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Amado Guevara (born 1976)Honduran footballer
Antonio Guevara Noroña (1480–1545)Spanish roman-catholic bishop
Ana Guevara (born 1977)Mexican athlete and politician
Wálter Guevara (1912–1996)54th President of Bolivia (August-November 1979)
Luis Vélez de Guevara (1579–1644)Spanish writer
Ander Guevara (born 1997)Spanish association football player
Aleida Guevara (born 1960)Cuban doctor; politician and daughter of Che Guevara

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

Surnames like Guevara

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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.