Quiroga

Quiroga is the 5,608th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,985 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 49,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,985
Rank: 5,608th
How common: 1 in 49,900
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Galician

Borrowed from Galician Quiroga, from the town of Quiroga, Galicia.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 89.6%
White, not Hispanic 7.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Quiroga

Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937)Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer
Jorge Quiroga (born 1960)President of Bolivia from 2001 to 2002
Santiago Casares Quiroga (1884–1950)Spanish politician
Fernando Quiroga y Palacios (1900–1971)Catholic cardinal
Ramón Quiroga (born 1950)Peruvian footballer
Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga (1942–2022)Colombian Roman Catholic archbishop
Manuel Quiroga Losada (1892–1961)Spanish violinist from Galicia; composer
Facundo Quiroga (1788–1835)Argentine politician

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

Surnames like Quiroga

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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.