Zamora

61,244 people in the United States were counted with the surname Zamora in the 2020 census, making it the 540th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,880.

By the numbers

People: 61,244
Rank: 540th
How common: 1 in 4,880
Per 100,000: 20.5

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.1%
White, not Hispanic 5.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Zamora

Ricardo Zamora (1901–1978)Spanish association football player
Xavier Espot Zamora (born 1979)prime minister of Andorra since 2019
Bobby Zamora (born 1981)English association football player
Jaime Paz Zamora (born 1939)President of Bolivia from 1989 to 1993
Álvaro Zamora (born 2002)Costa Rican footballer
Vicente Jiménez Zamora (born 1944)Spanish archbishop
Alfonso Zamora (born 1954)Mexican boxer
Jacinto Zamora (1835–1872)Filipino priest martyred in 1872

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

Surnames like Zamora

Also a first name

Zamora has been given to 1,499 American babies as a first name since 1992, peaking in 2025. 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.