Valencia

At the 2020 census, 67,405 Americans bore the surname Valencia — 485th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,434.

By the numbers

People: 67,405
Rank: 485th
How common: 1 in 4,434
Per 100,000: 22.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Valencia, from Latin Valentia, from valentia (“power, vigour”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 88.5%
White, not Hispanic 5.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Valencia

Antonio Valencia (born 1985)portughez association football player
Enner Valencia (born 1989)Ecuadorian association football player
Guillermo León Valencia (1909–1971)President of Colombia
Alejandra Valencia (born 1994)Mexican archer
José Daniel Valencia (born 1955)Argentine footballer
Adolfo Valencia (born 1968)Colombian footballer
Leonardo Valencia (born 1991)Chilean association football player
Anthony Valencia (born 2003)Ecuadorian association football player

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

Surnames like Valencia

Also a first name

Valencia has been given to 12,209 American babies as a first name since 1919, peaking in 1970. See it as a given name.

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.