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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

Answer Stats

lush

(45)

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

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Aug 18, 2012

aliberti68

(37)

I was doing the same thing but only managed 11

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Aug 15, 2013

TheGambler

(28)

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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Oct 7, 2014

tshalla

(59)

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

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Aug 5, 2017

dobleV

(29)

Names ending in -es are Portuguese, not Hispanic.

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Aug 22, 2012

jess1769

(42)

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

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Aug 28, 2012

dobleV

(29)

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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Sep 8, 2012

Ludovico

(44)

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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Nov 15, 2012

Baltimorean

(65)

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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Jan 7, 2013

asl80

(39)

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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May 27, 2015

kalbahamut

(70)

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

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Jan 12, 2013

DthNte

(30)

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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Feb 17, 2013

kalbahamut

(70)

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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Jan 12, 2013

cr901

(8)

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

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Dec 5, 2013

Carole33

(45)

no Valenzuela?

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Jan 3, 2014

plattitude

(77)

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

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May 14, 2015

tshalla

(59)

But #1 in many Dodger fans' hearts.

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Aug 5, 2017

merlin71126

(48)

How in the hell Santiago NOT on this list.

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Jul 19, 2014

plattitude

(77)

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

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May 14, 2015

kalbahamut

(70)

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

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Aug 5, 2017

JMSR

(43)

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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Aug 5, 2017

angrobper14

(69)

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

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Aug 5, 2017

marcske

(48)

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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Jun 16, 2016

YantheMan

(59)

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

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Oct 6, 2016

kalbahamut

(70)

No Fernandez is unbelievable.

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Jan 6, 2017