Zavala

50,789 people in the United States were counted with the surname Zavala in the 2020 census, making it the 654th most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,885.

By the numbers

People: 50,789
Rank: 654th
How common: 1 in 5,885
Per 100,000: 17.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from Basque

Borrowed from Spanish Zavala, itself from Basque.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 95.1%
White, not Hispanic 4.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Zavala

Jesús Zavala (born 1987)Mexican footballer
Fernando Zavala (born 1971)Peruvian economist and politician
Juan de Zavala, 1st Marquis of Sierra Bullones (1804–1879)Prime Minister of Spain
Lorenzo de Zavala (1788–1836)19th-century Mexican politician
Silvio Zavala (1909–2014)Mexican historian

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

Surnames like Zavala

Zavaleta

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.