Palafox

Palafox is the 5,986th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,538 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 54,000.

By the numbers

People: 5,538
Rank: 5,986th
How common: 1 in 54,000
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

probably a habitational surname referring to Palafolls, Catalonia.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 89.9%
White, not Hispanic 4.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Palafox

José Rebolledo de Palafox, 1st Duke of Saragossa (1775–1847)Spanish duke and general
Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (1600–1659)Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop and Viceroy of New Spain

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

Surnames like Palafox

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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.