Salinas

80,378 people in the United States were counted with the surname Salinas in the 2020 census, making it the 390th most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,719.

By the numbers

People: 80,378
Rank: 390th
How common: 1 in 3,719
Per 100,000: 26.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Salinas, a metonymic occupational surname for a worker in a salt mine.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.2%
White, not Hispanic 5.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Salinas

Julio Salinas (born 1962)Spanish association football player
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (born 1948)60th President of Mexico
Pedro Salinas (1891–1951)Spanish poet
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas (1925–2005)President of Bolivia
Carmen Salinas (1939–2021)Mexican actress, impressionist, comedian, politician and theatre entrepreneur
Jorge Salinas (born 1992)Paraguayan association football player
Jorge Salinas (born 1968)Mexican television and film actor
Félix Salinas (1939–2021)Peruvian footballer

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

Surnames like Salinas

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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.