Lopez

878,958 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lopez in the 2020 census, making it the 12th most common in the country. That is about one person in 340.

By the numbers

People: 878,958
Rank: 12th
How common: 1 in 340
Per 100,000: 294.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Anglicization of Spanish López.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.3%
White, not Hispanic 5.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Lopez

Jennifer Lopez (born 1969)American singer and actress
Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794–1876)Mexican politician and military leader
Diego López (born 1981)Spanish footballer
Fermín López (born 2003)Spanish association football player
Mijaín López (born 1982)Cuban wrestler
Francisco Solano López (1826–1870)2nd president of Paraguay
Adolfo López Mateos (1910–1969)55th President of Mexico
Anthony Lopez (born 1990)Portuguese footballer

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

Surnames like Lopez

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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.