Rojas

109,184 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rojas in the 2020 census, making it the 282nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,738.

By the numbers

People: 109,184
Rank: 282nd
How common: 1 in 2,738
Per 100,000: 36.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Rojas.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 93.8%
White, not Hispanic 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Rojas

Yulimar Rojas (born 1995)Venezuelan athletics competitor
Fernando de Rojas (1465–1541)Spanish author and playwright
Oscar Pérez Rojas (born 1973)Mexican association football player
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1900–1975)26th President of Colombia
Marco Rojas (born 1991)New Zealand footballer
Benjamín Rojas (born 1985)Argentine actor
Gonzalo Rojas (1917–2011)Chilean writer, poet and professor
José Rojas (born 1983)Chilean footballer

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

Surnames like Rojas

Rojo

Try it on yourself

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.