Muniz

Muniz is the 1,120th most common surname in the United States, shared by 30,731 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,726.

By the numbers

People: 30,731
Rank: 1,120th
How common: 1 in 9,726
Per 100,000: 10.3

Where the name comes from

Spanish, Galician, ast, and roa-leo surname, patronymic from Muño, from the name of a hill in Spain, from Latin monere. In Brazil this is found as a variant of the related Moniz.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.1%
White, not Hispanic 8.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Muniz

Frankie Muniz (born 1985)American actor
Rodrigo Muniz (born 2001)Brazilian association football player
Vik Muniz (born 1961)Brazilian photographer and sculptor
Ángel González Muñiz (1925–2008)Spanish poet
Manuel Fernández Muñiz (born 1986)Spanish footballer

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

Surnames like Muniz

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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.