Vega

116,828 people in the United States were counted with the surname Vega in the 2020 census, making it the 258th most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,558.

By the numbers

People: 116,828
Rank: 258th
How common: 1 in 2,558
Per 100,000: 39.1

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 Vega described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 92.0%
White, not Hispanic 5.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Vega

Lope de Vega (1562–1635)Spanish playwright and poet
Garcilaso de la Vega (1503–1536)Spanish poet
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616)Spanish chronicler
Paz Vega (born 1976)Spanish actress
Suzanne Vega (born 1959)American singer-songwriter
Alexis Vega (born 1997)Mexican footballer
Jurij Vega (1754–1802)Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer
Amelia Vega (born 1984)Dominican model and Miss Universe 2003

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

Also a first name

Vega has been given to 936 American babies as a first name since 1918, peaking in 2019. 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.