How common is the surname Arias?

57,477 people in the United States had the surname Arias in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 5,372 Americans. It ranked 581st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Arias?

Moisés Arias, American actor, followed by Yancey Arias.

Where is the surname Arias most common?

Wikidata records people named Arias in the United States, Argentina and France and 2 other countries.

Is the surname Arias getting more or less common?

More common. 40,086 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 57,477 in 2010, up 43%.

The surname Arias

A Spanish surname, carried by 57,477 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex A620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Arias is more common than 99.6% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Borrowed from Spanish Arias.

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 57,477 people named Arias in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 5,372 Americans. That is up 43% since 2000, when the Census counted 40,086.

#581

rank among US surnames

57,477

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+43.4%

change since 2000 (was #787)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#572	Briggs	58,408	5,286
#573	Shah	58,287	5,297
#574	Roth	58,278	5,298
#575	Nicholson	58,151	5,309
#576	Holloway	58,040	5,320
#577	Lozano	57,779	5,344
#578	Rangel	57,549	5,365

Who is named Arias

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

93% of people named Arias identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 5.1% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 93%
White (not Hispanic) 5.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
Two or more races 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Famous Ariass

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Moisés Arias
American actor, born 1994
Yancey Arias
American actor, born 1971
Lola Arias
Argentinian actress, playwright and writer, born 1976
Julia Lebel-Arias
Argentine chess player, born 1946
Joaquín Arias
Baseball player, born 1984
David Arias Pérez
Auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark (1929–2019)

Notable Ariass come mostly from the United States (2), Argentina (1) and France (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Arias

Arias has the Soundex code A620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A620.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Arias come from?: Borrowed from Spanish Arias.
How common is the surname Arias?: 57,477 people in the United States had the surname Arias in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 5,372 Americans. It ranked 581st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Arias?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Arias identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 5.1% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Arias?: Moisés Arias, American actor, followed by Yancey Arias.
Where is the surname Arias most common?: Wikidata records people named Arias in the United States, Argentina and France and 2 other countries.
Is the surname Arias getting more or less common?: More common. 40,086 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 57,477 in 2010, up 43%.