Valera

4,190 people in the United States were counted with the surname Valera in the 2020 census, making it the 7,616th most common in the country. That is about one person in 71,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,190
Rank: 7,616th
How common: 1 in 71,300
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 72.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 18.7%
White, not Hispanic 6.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Valera

Éamon de Valera (1882–1975)Irish statesman
Juan Valera (1824–1905)Spanish writer and diplomat
Juan Valera Espín (born 1984)Spanish footballer
José Gregorio Valera (1801–1890)President of Venezuela
Germán Valera (born 2002)Spanish association football player
Cipriano de Valera (died 1602)Spanish translator

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

Surnames like Valera

Also a first name

Valera has been given to 1,063 American babies as a first name since 1896, peaking in 1919. 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.