How common is the surname Arriaza?

1,387 people in the United States had the surname Arriaza in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,600 Americans. It ranked 19,480th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Arriaza getting more or less common?

More common. 1,103 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,387 in 2010, up 26%.

The surname Arriaza

A Spanish surname, carried by 1,387 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). Arriaza is more common than 88% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Borrowed from Spanish Arriaza, itself from Basque.

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 1,387 people named Arriaza in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 222,600 Americans. That is up 26% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,103.

#19,480

rank among US surnames

1,387

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+25.7%

change since 2000 (was #21,934)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,480	Vanvoorhis	1,387	222,600
#19,489	Pulsifer	1,386	222,760

Who is named Arriaza

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

96% of people named Arriaza identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 3.5% as white (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 96%
White (not Hispanic) 3.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Arriaza

Arriaza 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 Arriaza come from?: Borrowed from Spanish Arriaza, itself from Basque.
How common is the surname Arriaza?: 1,387 people in the United States had the surname Arriaza in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,600 Americans. It ranked 19,480th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Arriaza?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Arriaza identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 3.5% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Arriaza getting more or less common?: More common. 1,103 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,387 in 2010, up 26%.