Puente

Puente is the 2,458th most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,336 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 20,800.

By the numbers

People: 14,336
Rank: 2,458th
How common: 1 in 20,800
Per 100,000: 4.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Spanish surname, from puente (“bridge”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.9%
White, not Hispanic 5.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Puente

Tito Puente (1923–2000)American musician
Aurelio González Puente (born 1940)road bicycle racer
Óscar Puente (born 1968)Spanish politician and lawyer
Dorothea Puente (1929–2011)American serial killer
Isaac Puente Amestoy (1896–1936)Spanish anarchist

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

Surnames like Puente

Puentes

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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.