Valdes

Valdes is the 1,617th most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,599 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,800.

By the numbers

People: 21,599
Rank: 1,617th
How common: 1 in 13,800
Per 100,000: 7.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Asturian

From Spanish Valdés, from ast Valdés.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 89.6%
White, not Hispanic 8.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Valdes

Víctor Valdés (born 1982)Spanish association football player
Jorge Dely Valdés (born 1967)Panamanian association football player
Miguel Alemán Valdés (1900–1983)53th President of Mexico
Bebo Valdés (1918–2013)Cuban musician
José Ángel Valdés (born 1989)Spanish footballer
Carlos Valdés (born 1985)Colombian footballer
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478–1557)Spanish naturalist and historian
Zoé Valdés (born 1959)Cuban writer

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

Surnames like Valdes

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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.