Prieto

19,560 people in the United States were counted with the surname Prieto in the 2020 census, making it the 1,791st most common in the country. That is about one person in 15,300.

By the numbers

People: 19,560
Rank: 1,791st
How common: 1 in 15,300
Per 100,000: 6.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Prieto.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.0%
White, not Hispanic 6.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Prieto

Xabi Prieto (born 1983)Spanish footballer
Indalecio Prieto (1883–1962)Spanish politician
José Joaquín Prieto (1786–1854)Chilean politician and President
Rodrigo Prieto (born 1965)Mexican cinematographer
David Prieto (born 1983)Spanish footballer
Carlos Prieto Martos (born 1980)Spanish handball player
Andrés Prieto (1928–2022)Chilean footballer
Ignacio Prieto (born 1943)Chilean footballer

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

Surnames like Prieto

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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.