Sousa

At the 2020 census, 15,447 Americans bore the surname Sousa — 2,300th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,300.

By the numbers

People: 15,447
Rank: 2,300th
How common: 1 in 19,300
Per 100,000: 5.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Portuguese

from Old Portuguese Sousa.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.9%
Hispanic or Latino 7.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Sousa

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (born 1948)Portuguese politician and academic, former President of Portugal
John Philip Sousa (1854–1932)American conductor and composer
Paulo Sousa (born 1970)Portuguese footballer
Everton Sousa Soares (born 1996)Brazilian association football player
João Sousa (born 1989)Portuguese tennis player
Wellington Luís de Sousa (born 1988)Brazilian association football player
Marjorie de Sousa (born 1980)Venezuelan actress and model
Filipa Sousa (born 1985)Portuguese singer

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

Surnames like Sousa

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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.