Rivera

Rivera is the 46th most common surname in the United States, shared by 398,449 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 750.

By the numbers

People: 398,449
Rank: 46th
How common: 1 in 750
Per 100,000: 133.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Rivera.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.2%
White, not Hispanic 5.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Rivera

Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella (1870–1930)Spanish politician; dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930
José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903–1936)Spanish politician and founder of Falange Española
Marian Rivera (born 1984)Spanish-Filipino model and actress
Sergio Obeso Rivera (1931–2019)Mexican Roman-Catholic priest, cardinal
Adolfo Suárez Rivera (1927–2008)Mexican Catholic cardinal
José Garibi y Rivera (1889–1972)Mexican Roman Catholic priest, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Pilar Primo de Rivera (1911–1991)Spanish countess
Álvaro García Rivera (born 1992)Spanish footballer

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

Surnames like Rivera

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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.