Valdez

Valdez is the 250th most common surname in the United States, shared by 122,442 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,441.

By the numbers

People: 122,442
Rank: 250th
How common: 1 in 2,441
Per 100,000: 41.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Valdez, from ast Valdés.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 87.5%
White, not Hispanic 6.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Valdez

Nelson Valdez (born 1983)Paraguayan footballer
Carlos Valdez (born 1989)Colombian-American actor
Javier Valdez Cárdenas (1967–2017)Mexican crime journalist and murder victim
Luis Valdez (born 1940)American writer and director
Óscar Valdez (born 1990)Mexican boxer
Bruno Valdez (born 1992)Paraguayan association football player
Rodrigo Valdez (1946–2017)Colombian boxer
Grettell Valdez (born 1976)Mexican actress

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

Surnames like Valdez

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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.