Nieves

At the 2020 census, 36,188 Americans bore the surname Nieves — 947th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,260.

By the numbers

People: 36,188
Rank: 947th
How common: 1 in 8,260
Per 100,000: 12.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Nieves.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 91.3%
White, not Hispanic 6.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Nieves

Roberto González Nieves (born 1950)Franciscan friar and archbishop
Daniela Nieves (born 1997)Venezuelan-born American actress

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

Surnames like Nieves

Also a first name

Nieves has been given to 1,581 American babies as a first name since 1901, peaking in 1926. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.