Valenzuela

At the 2020 census, 54,200 Americans bore the surname Valenzuela — 605th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,515.

By the numbers

People: 54,200
Rank: 605th
How common: 1 in 5,515
Per 100,000: 18.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Valenzuela. As a surname, originated in Castile and León in Spain. The city in the Philippines is.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 89.0%
White, not Hispanic 5.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Valenzuela

Jesús Valenzuela (born 1983)Venezuelan association football referee
Luisa Valenzuela (born 1938)Argentine writer
René Valenzuela (born 1955)Chilean footballer
Milton Valenzuela (born 1998)Argentine footballer
Laura Valenzuela (1931–2023)Spanish television presenter
Fernando Valenzuela (1960–2024)Mexican-American baseball player
Francisca Valenzuela (born 1987)Chilean-American singer
Edmundo Valenzuela Mellid (born 1944)Christian missionary

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

Surnames like Valenzuela

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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.