Monroy

Monroy is the 2,410th most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,756 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 20,300.

By the numbers

People: 14,756
Rank: 2,410th
How common: 1 in 20,300
Per 100,000: 4.9

Where the name comes from

From Monroy, Spanish origin, specifically a habitational name derived from the place name Monroy in the province of Cáceres, Spain. The name is believed to mean "red mountain".

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 93.0%
White, not Hispanic 5.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Monroy

Aitor Monroy Rueda (born 1987)Spanish footballer

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

Surnames like Monroy

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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.