Varela

At the 2020 census, 27,044 Americans bore the surname Varela — 1,271st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,100.

By the numbers

People: 27,044
Rank: 1,271st
How common: 1 in 11,100
Per 100,000: 9.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Galician

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 89.5%
White, not Hispanic 7.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Varela

Juan Carlos Varela (born 1963)50th president of Panama
Silvestre Varela (born 1985)Portuguese footballer
Guillermo Varela (born 1993)Uruguayan association football player
Obdulio Varela (1917–1996)Uruguayan footballer
Antonio María Rouco Varela (born 1936)Spanish Catholic cardinal
Francisco Varela (1946–2001)Chilean biologist
Leonor Varela (born 1972)Chilean actress
Hélio Varela (born 2002)Cape Verdean footballer

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

Surnames like Varela

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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.