Lezama

At the 2020 census, 3,785 Americans bore the surname Lezama — 8,374th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 79,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,785
Rank: 8,374th
How common: 1 in 79,000
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Lezama, a habitational surname of Basque origin.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 87.6%
Black, not Hispanic 7.9%
White, not Hispanic 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Lezama

José Lezama Lima (1910–1976)Cuban writer, poet
Raimundo Pérez Lezama (1922–2007)Spanish footballer

People named Lezama 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.