Montero

At the 2020 census, 17,639 Americans bore the surname Montero — 2,000th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,900.

By the numbers

People: 17,639
Rank: 2,000th
How common: 1 in 16,900
Per 100,000: 5.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 85.5%
White, not Hispanic 8.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Montero

Paolo Montero (born 1971)Uruguayan footballer
Rosa Montero (born 1951)Spanish writer
Jefferson Montero (born 1989)Ecuadorian association football player
Irene Montero (born 1988)Spanish politician and psychologist
María Jesús Montero Cuadrado (born 1966)Spanish politician
Amaia Montero (born 1976)Spanish singer
Javi Montero (born 1999)Spanish association football player
Gabriela Montero (born 1970)Venezuelan musician

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

Surnames like Montero

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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.