Zarate

At the 2020 census, 20,138 Americans bore the surname Zarate — 1,735th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,800.

By the numbers

People: 20,138
Rank: 1,735th
How common: 1 in 14,800
Per 100,000: 6.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from Basque

Borrowed from Spanish Zárate, itself from a Basque toponym.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.1%
White, not Hispanic 4.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Zarate

Mauro Zárate (born 1987)Argentine association football player
Lucia Zarate (1864–1890)Mexican entertainer with dwarfism
Gonzalo Zárate (born 1984)Argentine footballer
Roberto Zárate (1932–2013)Argentine association football player
Carlos Zárate Serna (born 1951)Mexican boxer
Eladio Zárate (1942–2026)Paraguayan footballer

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

Surnames like Zarate

Zaragoza

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.