Noriega

14,076 people in the United States were counted with the surname Noriega in the 2020 census, making it the 2,499th most common in the country. That is about one person in 21,200.

By the numbers

People: 14,076
Rank: 2,499th
How common: 1 in 21,200
Per 100,000: 4.7

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

Hispanic or Latino 89.9%
White, not Hispanic 6.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Noriega

Manuel Noriega (1934–2017)Panamanian head of state
Eduardo Noriega (born 1973)Spanish actor
Carlos I. Noriega (born 1959)Peruvian astronaut
Zenón Noriega Agüero (1900–1957)37th & 39th President of Peru
Erick Noriega (born 2001)Japanese-Peruvian association football player
Víctor Noriega (born 1968)Mexican actor and singer

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

Surnames like Noriega

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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.