Zelaya

Zelaya is the 2,533rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,901 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,500.

By the numbers

People: 13,901
Rank: 2,533rd
How common: 1 in 21,500
Per 100,000: 4.7

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Zelaya, from Basque Zelaia, habitational surname from zelai (“field”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 93.9%
White, not Hispanic 4.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Zelaya

Manuel Zelaya (born 1952)Honduran politician and businessman
Juan Lindo y Zelaya (1790–1857)President of Honduras and El Salvador
Rodolfo Zelaya (born 1988)Salvadorian footballer

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

Surnames like Zelaya

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.