Vaca

7,613 people in the United States were counted with the surname Vaca in the 2020 census, making it the 4,533rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 39,300.

By the numbers

People: 7,613
Rank: 4,533rd
How common: 1 in 39,300
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Vaca.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.9%
White, not Hispanic 6.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Vaca

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1507–1559)Spanish explorer of the New World
Joselito Vaca (born 1982)Bolivian footballer
Cristóbal Vaca de Castro (1492–1566)Spanish explorer

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

Surnames like Vaca

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.