Saavedra

At the 2020 census, 19,063 Americans bore the surname Saavedra — 1,847th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 15,700.

By the numbers

People: 19,063
Rank: 1,847th
How common: 1 in 15,700
Per 100,000: 6.4

Where the name comes from

From Spanish, of Galician origin.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 91.1%
White, not Hispanic 5.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Saavedra

Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878–1959)Argentine politician
Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas (1791–1865)Spanish writer, poet, playwright and politician
Bautista Saavedra (1870–1939)President of Bolivia
Cornelio Saavedra (1759–1829)Platian general
Guillermo Saavedra (1903–1957)Chilean footballer
Jerónimo Saavedra (1936–2023)Spanish politician and academic
Erwin Saavedra (born 1996)Bolivian footballer
Humberto Saavedra (born 1923)Bolivian footballer

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

Surnames like Saavedra

Saad
Saari

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.