Ochoa

77,931 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ochoa in the 2020 census, making it the 408th most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,835.

By the numbers

People: 77,931
Rank: 408th
How common: 1 in 3,835
Per 100,000: 26.1

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Ochoa, from Basque otsoa, otxoa (“wolf”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 93.1%
White, not Hispanic 5.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Ochoa

Severo Ochoa (1905–1993)Spanish physician
Guillermo Ochoa (born 1985)Mexican association football player
Ellen Ochoa (born 1958)American engineer and former astronaut
Blanca Fernández Ochoa (1963–2019)Spanish alpine skier
Francisco Fernández Ochoa (1950–2006)Spanish alpine skier
Ryan Ochoa (born 1996)American actor
Arnaldo Ochoa (1940–1989)Cuban general
Lorena Ochoa (born 1981)Mexican professional golfer

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

Surnames like Ochoa

Ochs

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.