Vera

At the 2020 census, 33,109 Americans bore the surname Vera — 1,043rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,028.

By the numbers

People: 33,109
Rank: 1,043rd
How common: 1 in 9,028
Per 100,000: 11.1

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

Hispanic or Latino 91.5%
White, not Hispanic 6.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Vera

Tomás Barrios Vera (born 1997)Chilean tennis player
Pedro González Vera (born 1967)Chilean footballer
Billy Vera (born 1944)American singer and actor, songwriter

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

Surnames like Vera

Also a first name

Vera has been given to 149,854 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. 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.