Velasquez

78,234 people in the United States were counted with the surname Velasquez in the 2020 census, making it the 405th most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,821.

By the numbers

People: 78,234
Rank: 405th
How common: 1 in 3,821
Per 100,000: 26.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Velázquez.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 91.5%
White, not Hispanic 5.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Velasquez

Patricia Velásquez (born 1971)Venezuelan actress
Regine Velasquez (born 1970)Filipina singer and actress
Cain Velasquez (born 1982)American mixed martial artist
Ramón José Velásquez (1916–2014)Venezuelan politician, lawyer and historian
Lizzie Velasquez (born 1743)American motivational speaker
Jaci Velásquez (born 1979)American singer-songwriter and actor
Gustavo Velásquez (born 1991)Paraguayan association football player
Javier Velásquez (born 1960)Peruvian lawyer and politician

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

Surnames like Velasquez

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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.