Tapia

At the 2020 census, 50,410 Americans bore the surname Tapia — 659th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,929.

By the numbers

People: 50,410
Rank: 659th
How common: 1 in 5,929
Per 100,000: 16.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Basque

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 93.0%
White, not Hispanic 5.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Tapia

Renato Tapia (born 1995)Peruvian association football player
Nelson Tapia (born 1966)Chilean footballer
José Tapia (born 1905)Cuban footballer
Ramón Tapia (1932–1984)boxer
Luis Ernesto Tapia (1944–2024)Panamanian footballer
Héctor Tapia (born 1977)Chilean footballer

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

Surnames like Tapia

Tapp
Tapley

Try it on yourself

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.