Padilla

Padilla is the 295th most common surname in the United States, shared by 104,340 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,865.

By the numbers

People: 104,340
Rank: 295th
How common: 1 in 2,865
Per 100,000: 34.9

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

Hispanic or Latino 89.2%
White, not Hispanic 6.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Padilla

Alex Padilla (born 1973)United States Senator from California since 2021
David Padilla (1927–2016)President of the military council of Bolivia
Alejandro García Padilla (born 1971)governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez (1942–2020)Mexican footballer
Wenceslao Selga Padilla (1949–2018)Filipino Scheut priest
Francisco Montecillo Padilla (born 1953)Philippine prelate of the Catholic Church
María de Padilla (1334–1361)Mistress of Peter of Castile
Daniel Padilla (born 1995)Filipino actor and singer

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

Surnames like Padilla

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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.