The surname Arango
A Spanish place surname, carried by 6,998 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex A652
Origin
Spanish origin
Borrowed from Spanish Arango, habitational surname of Basque origin.
Arango 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 6,998 people named Arango in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 44,119 Americans. That is up 35% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,202.
Who is named Arango
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Arango identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 7.7% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 91%
- White (not Hispanic) 7.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- Two or more races 0.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Arango has the Soundex code A652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A652.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Arango come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Arango, habitational surname of Basque origin.
- How common is the surname Arango?
- 6,998 people in the United States had the surname Arango in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 44,119 Americans. It ranked 5,020th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Arango?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Arango identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 7.7% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Arango?
- Arango is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Arango getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,202 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,998 in 2010, up 35%.