Last Name VALDEZ

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Not available

Origin	Spanish, Creole, Portuguese

Rank	283 (2000 US census)	340 (1990 US census)

Count	98,610 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

6.84%, or 6745 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.54%, or 532 total occurrences, as black,
3.36%, or 3313 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.71%, or 700 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.73%, or 720 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
87.82%, or 86599 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...