Morales

At the 2020 census, 310,866 Americans bore the surname Morales — 62nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 962.

By the numbers

People: 310,866
Rank: 62nd
How common: 1 in 962
Per 100,000: 104.0

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 Morales described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 92.4%
White, not Hispanic 5.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Morales

Evo Morales (born 1959)president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019
Jimmy Morales (born 1969)Comedian and former President of Guatemala
Francisco Morales Bermúdez (1921–2022)51st President of Peru
Esai Morales (born 1962)American actor
Ramón Morales (born 1975)Mexican association football player
Natalie Morales (born 1985)American actress
Alfredo Morales (born 1990)American soccer player
Cristóbal de Morales (1500–1553)Spanish composer

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

Surnames like Morales

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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.