Palma

Palma is the 1,696th most common surname in the United States, shared by 20,693 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,400.

By the numbers

People: 20,693
Rank: 1,696th
How common: 1 in 14,400
Per 100,000: 6.9

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 73.6%
White, not Hispanic 18.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 6.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Palma

Brian De Palma (born 1940)American film director and screenwriter
Tomás Estrada Palma (1835–1908)Cuban politician (1835–1908); President of Cuba
Emilio Palma (born 1978)first person born on the Antarctic mainland
Rossy de Palma (born 1964)Spanish actress
Ricardo Palma (1833–1919)Peruvian historian
Adelino da Palma Carlos (1905–1992)Portuguese politician
Jose S. Palma (born 1950)Filipino Roman Catholic Archbishop
Carlo Di Palma (1925–2004)Italian cinematographer

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

Surnames like Palma

Also a first name

Palma has been given to 3,574 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 1925. See it as a given name.

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.