Pantoja

At the 2020 census, 14,387 Americans bore the surname Pantoja — 2,450th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 20,800.

By the numbers

People: 14,387
Rank: 2,450th
How common: 1 in 20,800
Per 100,000: 4.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Pantoja.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 94.3%
White, not Hispanic 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Pantoja

Isabel Pantoja (born 1956)Spanish singer
Juan Pantoja de la Cruz (1553–1608)Spanish artist

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

Surnames like Pantoja

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.