Rosario

52,418 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rosario in the 2020 census, making it the 627th most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,702.

By the numbers

People: 52,418
Rank: 627th
How common: 1 in 5,702
Per 100,000: 17.5

Where the name comes from

From Spanish rosario (“rosary”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 87.3%
White, not Hispanic 5.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Rosario

Dwayne De Rosario (born 1978)Canadian soccer player
Raquel del Rosario (born 1982)Spanish singer
Gualberto do Rosário (born 1950)Cape Verdean politician and former prime minister of Cape Verde
Pablo Rosario (born 1997)Dutch-Dominican Republic association football player
Albert del Rosario (1939–2023)Philippine diplomat
Maria do Rosário (born 1966)Brazilian politician

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

Surnames like Rosario

Also a first name

Rosario has been given to 16,585 American babies as a first name since 1896, peaking in 1993. See it as a given name.

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.