Nieto

25,256 people in the United States were counted with the surname Nieto in the 2020 census, making it the 1,377th most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,800.

By the numbers

People: 25,256
Rank: 1,377th
How common: 1 in 11,800
Per 100,000: 8.5

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.0%
White, not Hispanic 7.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Nieto

Enrique Peña Nieto (born 1966)64th President of Mexico
Ángel Nieto (1947–2017)Spanish motorcycle racer
Marta Nieto (born 1982)Spanish actress and film director
José García Nieto (1914–2001)Spanish poet and writer
Antonio Jesús López Nieto (born 1958)Spanish football referee
Domingo Nieto (1803–1844)President of Peru
Dani Nieto (born 1991)Spanish footballer
Fonsi Nieto (born 1978)Spanish motorcycle racer

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

Surnames like Nieto

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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.