The surname Almeda
A Spanish surname, carried by 1,528 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex A453
Origin
Spanish origin
From Spanish Almeida, from Arabic الْمَائِدَة (al-māʔida).
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 1,528 people named Almeda in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 202,059 Americans. That is up 32% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,155.
Who is named Almeda
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
56% of people named Almeda identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 20% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 19% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 56%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 20%
- White (not Hispanic) 19%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.0%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Almeda has the Soundex code A453, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A453.
Other Spanish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Almeda come from?
- From Spanish Almeida, from Arabic الْمَائِدَة (al-māʔida).
- How common is the surname Almeda?
- 1,528 people in the United States had the surname Almeda in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 202,059 Americans. It ranked 18,208th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Almeda?
- In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Almeda identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 20% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- Is the surname Almeda getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,155 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,528 in 2010, up 32%.