How common is the surname Aguayo?

12,876 people in the United States had the surname Aguayo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 23,978 Americans. It ranked 2,799th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Aguayo getting more or less common?

More common. 9,878 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,876 in 2010, up 30%.

The surname Aguayo

A Spanish surname, carried by 12,876 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex A200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Aguayo is more common than 98.3% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Borrowed from Spanish aguayo.

One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 12,876 people named Aguayo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 23,978 Americans. That is up 30% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,878.

#2,799

rank among US surnames

12,876

people in 2010

4.4

per 100,000 Americans

+30.4%

change since 2000 (was #3,321)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,790	Pease	12,937	23,865
#2,791	Regalado	12,931	23,876
#2,792	Oldham	12,928	23,882
#2,793	Belanger	12,922	23,893
#2,794	Alcantar	12,919	23,899
#2,795	Looney	12,910	23,915
#2,796	Kenyon	12,891	23,950

Who is named Aguayo

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Aguayo identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 4.1% as white (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 95%
White (not Hispanic) 4.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
Two or more races 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Aguayo

Aguayo has the Soundex code A200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A200.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Aguayo come from?: Borrowed from Spanish aguayo.
How common is the surname Aguayo?: 12,876 people in the United States had the surname Aguayo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 23,978 Americans. It ranked 2,799th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Aguayo?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Aguayo identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 4.1% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Aguayo getting more or less common?: More common. 9,878 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,876 in 2010, up 30%.