Mujica

Mujica is the 10,880th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,798 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 107,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,798
Rank: 10,880th
How common: 1 in 107,000
Per 100,000: 0.94

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from Basque

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.8%
White, not Hispanic 6.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.07%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Mujica

José Mujica (1935–2025)Uruguayan guerrilla fighter and politician
Juan Mujica (1943–2016)Uruguayan footballer
Aylín Mújica (born 1974)Cuban actress singer
Manuel Mujica Lainez (1910–1984)Argentine writer

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

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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.