Melgar

Melgar is the 3,480th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,007 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 29,900.

By the numbers

People: 10,007
Rank: 3,480th
How common: 1 in 29,900
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish, usually a common Guatemalan surname.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 94.6%
White, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Melgar

Juan Alberto Melgar Castro (1930–1987)President of Honduras
Rafael Lapesa Melgar (1908–2001)Spanish philologist

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

Surnames like Melgar

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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.