Hidalgo

Hidalgo is the 1,459th most common surname in the United States, shared by 23,791 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 12,600.

By the numbers

People: 23,791
Rank: 1,459th
How common: 1 in 12,600
Per 100,000: 8.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

from Spanish hidalgo, from Old Spanish fijo d'algo (“son of something”). The Mexican state is named after independence leader Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 85.9%
White, not Hispanic 8.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Hidalgo

Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla (1753–1811)Catholic priest, leader of the Mexican War of Independence
Anne Hidalgo (born 1959)Spanish–French politician
Michel Hidalgo (1933–2020)French football player and manager
Matilde Hidalgo (1889–1974)Ecuadorian physician and suffragist
Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo (born 1978)Spanish tennis player
Cristian Hidalgo (born 1983)Spanish footballer
Martha Érika Alonso Hidalgo (1973–2018)Mexican politician
María Harfuch Hidalgo (born 1951)Mexican actress and singer

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

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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.