Vara

2,780 people in the United States were counted with the surname Vara in the 2020 census, making it the 10,943rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 108,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,780
Rank: 10,943rd
How common: 1 in 108,000
Per 100,000: 0.93

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Vara.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 71.9%
White, not Hispanic 24.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Vara

Guillermo Fernández Vara (1958–2025)Spanish politician
Shailesh Vara (born 1960)British politician

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

Surnames like Vara

Also a first name

Vara has been given to 762 American babies as a first name since 1887, peaking in 1922. 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.