Salazar

150,906 people in the United States were counted with the surname Salazar in the 2020 census, making it the 177th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,981.

By the numbers

People: 150,906
Rank: 177th
How common: 1 in 1,981
Per 100,000: 50.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from Basque

From Spanish Salazar, from archaic Basque Sarasaitzu (modern Zaraitzu).

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.7%
White, not Hispanic 6.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Salazar

António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970)Prime Minister of Portugal
Rosa Salazar (born 1985)American actress
Ken Salazar (born 1955)United States Ambassador to Mexico since 2021
Rubén Salazar Gómez (born 1942)Colobmbian Roman Catholic priest, cardina, archbishop emeritus of Bogotá
Eliseo Salazar (born 1954)Chilean racing driver
Diego Salazar (born 1980)Colombian weightlifter
Manuel Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar (1856–1923)Prime Minister of Spain
Tamara Salazar (born 1997)Ecuadorian weightlifter

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

Surnames like Salazar

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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.