Salas

63,317 people in the United States were counted with the surname Salas in the 2020 census, making it the 522nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,721.

By the numbers

People: 63,317
Rank: 522nd
How common: 1 in 4,721
Per 100,000: 21.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Salas, from salas.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 89.8%
White, not Hispanic 6.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Salas

Marcelo Salas (born 1974)Chilean footballer
Margarita Salas (1938–2019)Spanish biochemist
José Mariano Salas (1797–1867)President of Mexico
Youstin Salas (born 1996)Costa Rican footballer
Christian Fernández Salas (born 1985)Spanish footballer
Claudia Salas (born 1994)French actreice
Marina Salas (born 1988)Catalan actress
Óscar Salas (born 1993)Honduran association football player

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

Surnames like Salas

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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.