Mendoza

Mendoza is the 88th most common surname in the United States, shared by 242,772 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,231.

By the numbers

People: 242,772
Rank: 88th
How common: 1 in 1,231
Per 100,000: 81.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from Basque

from Basque Mendoza.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 88.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.5%
White, not Hispanic 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Mendoza

Marcos Alonso Mendoza (born 1990)Spanish association football player
Dayana Mendoza (born 1986)Venezuelan model, actress and beauty pageant contestant
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (born 1943)Spanish writer
Pedro de Mendoza (1487–1537)Spanish conquistador
Antonio de Mendoza (1490–1552)Spanish colonial administrator
Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli (1540–1592)Spanish Princess
Cristóbal de Mendoza (1772–1829)President of Venezuela
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504–1575)Spanish writer

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

Surnames like Mendoza

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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.