Ruiz

At the 2020 census, 237,286 Americans bore the surname Ruiz — 92nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,260.

By the numbers

People: 237,286
Rank: 92nd
How common: 1 in 1,260
Per 100,000: 79.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.2%
White, not Hispanic 5.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Ruiz

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964–2020)Spanish writer
Bryan Ruiz (born 1985)Costa Rican footballer
Fabián Ruiz (born 1996)Spanish footballer
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (1890–1973)54th President of Mexico
José Martínez Ruiz (1873–1967)Spanish novelist, essayist and literary critic
Carlos Ruiz (born 1979)Guatemalan footballer
Raúl Ruiz (1941–2011)filmmaker
Paloma Ruiz Picasso (born 1949)French/Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman

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

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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.