Vargas

174,429 people in the United States were counted with the surname Vargas in the 2020 census, making it the 144th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,714.

By the numbers

People: 174,429
Rank: 144th
How common: 1 in 1,714
Per 100,000: 58.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Vargas. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico and Colombia.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.2%
White, not Hispanic 5.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Vargas

Fred Vargas (born 1957)French writer, archaeologist and historian
Virgilio Barco Vargas (1921–1997)President of Colombia
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (1871–1966)President of Nicaragua

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

Surnames like Vargas

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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.