Velazquez

65,353 people in the United States were counted with the surname Velazquez in the 2020 census, making it the 501st most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,574.

By the numbers

People: 65,353
Rank: 501st
How common: 1 in 4,574
Per 100,000: 21.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Velázquez.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 95.2%
White, not Hispanic 3.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Velazquez

Diego Velázquez (1599–1660)Spanish painter
Diego Velazquez de Cuéllar (1465–1524)Spanish governor of Cuba
Consuelo Velázquez (1916–2005)Mexican concert pianist, songwriter and recording artist
Nadine Velazquez (born 1978)American actress and model
Manuel Velázquez (1943–2016)Spanish footballer
Emiliano Velázquez (born 1994)Uruguayan footballer
Nydia M. Velázquez (born 1953)American politician
José Manuel Velázquez (born 1990)Venezuelan footballer

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

Surnames like Velazquez

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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.