Jimenez

At the 2020 census, 225,722 Americans bore the surname Jimenez — 98th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,324.

By the numbers

People: 225,722
Rank: 98th
How common: 1 in 1,324
Per 100,000: 75.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Jiménez.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 93.1%
White, not Hispanic 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Jimenez

Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958)Spanish poet
Raúl Jiménez (born 1991)Mexican association football player
Jaime Rodríguez Jiménez (1959–2025)Salvadoran footballer
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436–1517)Spanish Catholic cardinal
Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1914–2001)president of Venezuela
Manuel Jiménez Jiménez (born 1964)Spanish footballer
Juanmi Jiménez (born 1993)Spanish footballer
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (1509–1579)founder of Bogotá

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

Surnames like Jimenez

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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.