Zapata

At the 2020 census, 32,804 Americans bore the surname Zapata — 1,055th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,112.

By the numbers

People: 32,804
Rank: 1,055th
How common: 1 in 9,112
Per 100,000: 11.0

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.1%
White, not Hispanic 5.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Zapata

Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919)Mexican revolutionary
Cristián Zapata (born 1986)Colombian association football player
Gustavo Zapata (born 1967)Argentine association football player
Duván Zapata (born 1991)Colombian association football player
Carmen Zapata (1927–2014)American actress
Mia Zapata (1965–1993)American singer
Franky Zapata (born 1978)French jetski racer
Orlando Zapata (1967–2010)Cuban activist

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

Surnames like Zapata

Zapien

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.