Orellana

Orellana is the 1,144th most common surname in the United States, shared by 30,123 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,923.

By the numbers

People: 30,123
Rank: 1,144th
How common: 1 in 9,923
Per 100,000: 10.1

Where the name comes from

Named for Francisco de Orellana (1511–46), Spanish explorer, who was the first to explore it in the 1540s.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 95.3%
White, not Hispanic 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Orellana

Fabián Orellana (born 1986)Chilean footballer
Narciso Orellana (born 1995)association football player
Juan Carlos Orellana (1955–2022)Chilean footballer

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

Surnames like Orellana

Oreilly

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.