Ortega

124,833 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ortega in the 2020 census, making it the 243rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,394.

By the numbers

People: 124,833
Rank: 243rd
How common: 1 in 2,394
Per 100,000: 41.8

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.0%
White, not Hispanic 5.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Ortega

Daniel Ortega (born 1945)dictador of Nicaragua (1979–1990; 2007–present)
José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955)Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
Jenna Ortega (born 2002)American actress
Amancio Ortega (born 1936)Spanish business tycoon
Ariel Ortega (born 1974)Argentine footballer
Stefan Ortega (born 1992)German association football player
Kenny Ortega (born 1950)American television and film director, producer, choreographer
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (1936–2019)Catholic cardinal

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

Surnames like Ortega

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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.