The surname Arriaga
A Basque place surname, carried by 19,236 people in the United States.
4 syllables Soundex A620
Origin
Basque origin
Borrowed from Basque Arriaga, a habitational surname of Basque origin.
Arriaga is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 20 Basque surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 19,236 people named Arriaga in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 16,050 Americans. That is up 51% since 2000, when the Census counted 12,765.
Who is named Arriaga
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Arriaga identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 4.3% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 95%
- White (not Hispanic) 4.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%
- Two or more races 0.1%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Questions
- Where does the surname Arriaga come from?
- Borrowed from Basque Arriaga, a habitational surname of Basque origin.
- How common is the surname Arriaga?
- 19,236 people in the United States had the surname Arriaga in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 16,050 Americans. It ranked 1,865th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Arriaga?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Arriaga identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 4.3% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Arriaga?
- Arriaga is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Arriaga getting more or less common?
- More common. 12,765 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 19,236 in 2010, up 51%.