Velez

At the 2020 census, 53,491 Americans bore the surname Velez — 617th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,588.

By the numbers

People: 53,491
Rank: 617th
How common: 1 in 5,588
Per 100,000: 17.9

Where the name comes from

Anglicization of Spanish Vélez, of patronymic origin ("Son of Vela").

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.8%
White, not Hispanic 6.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Velez

Álvaro Uribe Vélez (born 1952)39.º President of Colombia from 2002 to 2010
Julián Estiven Vélez (born 1982)Colombian association football player
Lauren Vélez (born 1964)American actress
Pedro Vélez (1787–1848)President of Mexico
José Vélez (born 1951)Spanish singer
Eusebio Vélez (1935–2020)Spanish bicycle racer

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

Surnames like Velez

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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.