Tamayo

At the 2020 census, 16,559 Americans bore the surname Tamayo — 2,126th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,100.

By the numbers

People: 16,559
Rank: 2,126th
How common: 1 in 18,100
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Tamayo, from Basque.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 82.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 10.1%
White, not Hispanic 5.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Tamayo

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born 1942)Cuban cosmonaut
Rufino Tamayo (1899–1990)Mexican painter, printmaker, and sculptor
Manuel Tamayo y Baus (1829–1898)Spanish dramatist
José Luis Tamayo (1858–1947)President of Ecuador
Lauren Tamayo (born 1983)American racing cyclist
José María Gil Tamayo (born 1957)Spanish archbishop

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

Surnames like Tamayo

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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.