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Hispanic Last Names in the US

Can you guess the most common last names of Hispanics in the United States? To make it easier, we give you the first letter as a clue.

Hint: Think especially of names ending in -ez (and -es).
Source: 2000 U.S. census.
Quiz by jess1769 - Apr 11, 2017

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#	Letter	Last Name
779,000	G
746,000	R
711,000	M
663,000	H
569,000	L
562,000	G
448,000	P
405,000	S

#	Letter	Last Name
364,000	R
296,000	T
284,000	F
270,000	R
240,000	G
230,000	D
202,000	R
200,000	M

#	Letter	Last Name
199,000	C
198,000	O
197,000	G
171,000	C
165,000	R
164,000	G
161,000	R
153,000	A

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lush

level 45

Aug 18, 2012

i just thought of last names of hispanic baseball players and got 12

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aliberti68

level 37

Aug 15, 2013

I was doing the same thing but only managed 11

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TheGambler

level 28

Oct 7, 2014

i did the same thing and after the fact realized there are baseball players for every one except maybe just owner arte moreno for that one. i still did terrible.

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tshalla

level 59

Aug 5, 2017

Omar Moreno - great base stealer for the Pirates in the late '70s.

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dobleV

level 29

Aug 22, 2012

Names ending in -es are Portuguese, not Hispanic.

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jess1769

level 42

Aug 28, 2012

Let the U.S. Census Bureau know. ;-)

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dobleV

level 29

Sep 8, 2012

I couldn't care less about other countries' goverments opinions. I'm just telling you this fact because many of you don't know it.

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Ludovico

level 44

Nov 15, 2012

No they're not. "Torres, Flores, Reyes, Morales, Ramos"...Those are actual words in Spanish. Maybe you're right for Gonzales, but not the others.

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Baltimorean

level 66

Jan 7, 2013

I've heard similar things said about Spanish surnames, i.e., Quiñónes is Puerto Rican, while Quiñónez is Mexican. I'm not so sure it's that cut-and-dried. And Hernán Cortés was certainly Spanish, so I doubt the Spanish/Portuguese distinction works either.

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asl80

level 39

May 27, 2015

He's not right with Gonzales either. Perhaps there is a portuguese influence in the name, causing -ez to become -es. But the equivalent name in Portuguese is Gonçalves (from Gonçalo). Not Gonzales (from Gonzalo).

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kalbahamut

level 70

Jan 12, 2013

We don't know it because it's not true.

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DthNte

level 30

Feb 17, 2013

Portugal is included in the countries classed as 'hispanic' "comprised the Iberian Peninsula including the modern states of Andorra, Portugal, and Spain and the British Crown Dependency of Gibraltar. "

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kalbahamut

level 70

Jan 12, 2013

I'm sure if I had taken this test 10 years ago when I worked in ER registration I would have got 100% easy.

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cr901

level 8

Dec 5, 2013

I know 1-37 by heart I get 100% easily on this quiz

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Carole33

level 45

Jan 3, 2014

no Valenzuela?

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plattitude

level 76

May 14, 2015

Just looked, and Valenzuela is number 118 in the list, just under 40k.

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tshalla

level 59

Aug 5, 2017

But #1 in many Dodger fans' hearts.

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merlin71126

level 47

Jul 19, 2014

How in the hell Santiago NOT on this list.

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plattitude

level 76

May 14, 2015

Santiago is currently #57, with about 80,000 people.

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kalbahamut

level 70

Aug 5, 2017

I know. Where in the world are all those Santiagos?

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JMSR

level 43

Aug 5, 2017

I am here... but the last name Santiago is common in the Caribbean - especially PR and DR - not the rest of Latin America. Since this reflects USA, you won't find it there.

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angrobper14

level 70

Aug 5, 2017

I think, in many Latin American countries, Santiago is more common as given name than as surname.

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marcske

level 48

Jun 16, 2016

As a pro cycling and soccer fan, I was just writing down all the Spanish cyclists and soccer players I know, it got me a 29/30. Good score but my way of thinking had nothing to do with the question ;-)

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YantheMan

level 59

Oct 6, 2016

Completely and totally blanked. Tried a bunch of baseball players, but few of them actually worked.

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kalbahamut

level 70

Jan 6, 2017

No Fernandez is unbelievable.