Samaniego

At the 2020 census, 8,118 Americans bore the surname Samaniego — 4,226th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 36,800.

By the numbers

People: 8,118
Rank: 4,226th
How common: 1 in 36,800
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

From Spanish Samaniego, a habitational surname from Basque.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 85.9%
White, not Hispanic 6.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 6.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Samaniego

Félix María de Samaniego (1745–1801)Spanish writer

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

Surnames like Samaniego

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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.