Saenz

Saenz is the 1,032nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 33,424 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,943.

By the numbers

People: 33,424
Rank: 1,032nd
How common: 1 in 8,943
Per 100,000: 11.2

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 Saenz described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 91.3%
White, not Hispanic 7.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Saenz

Roque Sáenz Peña (1851–1914)Argentine politician, president of Argentina
Manuela Sáenz (1797–1856)Ecuadorian revolutionary heroine
Pedro Rubiano Sáenz (1932–2024)Colombian Roman-Catholic priest, cardinal
Benjamin Alire Sáenz (1954–2026)poet, novelist and writer from the United States
José Ignacio Sáenz (born 1973)Spanish football player/director
Pedro Segura y Sáenz (1880–1957)Catholic cardinal
Fernando Sáenz Lacalle (1932–2022)Archbishop of San Salvador
José Saenz d'Aguirre (1630–1699)Catholic cardinal

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

Surnames like Saenz

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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.