Plaza

Plaza is the 5,508th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,094 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 49,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,094
Rank: 5,508th
How common: 1 in 49,000
Per 100,000: 2.0

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

Hispanic or Latino 75.9%
White, not Hispanic 16.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.2%
Black, not Hispanic 2.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Plaza

Aubrey Plaza (born 1984)American actress, producer, comedian
Galo Plaza (1906–1987)President of Ecuador
Manuel Plaza (1900–1969)athlete from Chile
Daniel Plaza (born 1966)athletics competitor
Luis García Plaza (born 1972)Spanish football player/manager
Braulio Rodríguez Plaza (born 1944)Catholic bishop
Rubén Plaza (born 1980)Spanish professional road bicycle racer
Paco Plaza (born 1973)Spanish film director

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

Surnames like Plaza

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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.