How common is the surname Amezcua?

7,206 people in the United States had the surname Amezcua in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,846 Americans. It ranked 4,889th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Amezcua getting more or less common?

More common. 5,104 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,206 in 2010, up 41%.

The surname Amezcua

A Spanish place surname, carried by 7,206 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex A520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Amezcua is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Borrowed from Spanish Amezcua, from Basque Ametzkoa, a habitational surname from ametz (“Pyrenean oak”).

Amezcua is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

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 7,206 people named Amezcua in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 42,846 Americans. That is up 41% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,104.

#4,889

rank among US surnames

7,206

people in 2010

2.4

per 100,000 Americans

+41.2%

change since 2000 (was #6,180)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,880	Bussey	7,219	42,768
#4,881	Bosley	7,216	42,786
#4,882	Gorski	7,213	42,804
#4,883	Gurrola	7,211	42,816
#4,885	Verdugo	7,210	42,822
#4,887	Neel	7,209	42,828
#4,888	Urrutia	7,208	42,834

Who is named Amezcua

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

97% of people named Amezcua identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 2.8% as white (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 97%
White (not Hispanic) 2.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Amescua

Surnames that sound like Amezcua

Amescua

Amezcua has the Soundex code A520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A520.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Amezcua come from?: Borrowed from Spanish Amezcua, from Basque Ametzkoa, a habitational surname from ametz (“Pyrenean oak”).
How common is the surname Amezcua?: 7,206 people in the United States had the surname Amezcua in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,846 Americans. It ranked 4,889th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Amezcua?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Amezcua identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 2.8% as white (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Amezcua?: Amezcua is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Amezcua getting more or less common?: More common. 5,104 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,206 in 2010, up 41%.
What are other spellings of Amezcua?: Amescua.