How common is the surname Alcantar?

12,919 people in the United States had the surname Alcantar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 23,899 Americans. It ranked 2,794th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Alcantar getting more or less common?

More common. 8,802 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,919 in 2010, up 47%.

The surname Alcantar

A Spanish surname, carried by 12,919 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex A425

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

Origin

Spanish origin

Spanish Alcántar

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 12,919 people named Alcantar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 23,899 Americans. That is up 47% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,802.

#2,794

rank among US surnames

12,919

people in 2010

4.4

per 100,000 Americans

+46.8%

change since 2000 (was #3,701)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,785	Radford	12,956	23,830
#2,786	Foy	12,952	23,838
#2,788	Lipscomb	12,948	23,845
#2,789	Carreon	12,941	23,858
#2,790	Pease	12,937	23,865
#2,791	Regalado	12,931	23,876
#2,792	Oldham	12,928	23,882

Who is named Alcantar

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

96% of people named Alcantar identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 3.3% as white (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 96%
White (not Hispanic) 3.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Two or more races 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Alcantar

Alcantar has the Soundex code A425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A425.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Alcantar come from?: Spanish Alcántar
How common is the surname Alcantar?: 12,919 people in the United States had the surname Alcantar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 23,899 Americans. It ranked 2,794th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Alcantar?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Alcantar identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 3.3% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Alcantar getting more or less common?: More common. 8,802 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,919 in 2010, up 47%.