Licea

Licea is the 8,687th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,625 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 82,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,625
Rank: 8,687th
How common: 1 in 82,500
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Hispanic (Mexican and Cuban) surname, variant of Basque Lezea, from leze (“abyss, chasm”) + -a. Compare Lecea.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 95.6%
White, not Hispanic 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.06%

Surnames like Licea

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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.