The surname Arteaga
A Spanish surname, carried by 19,410 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex A632
Origin
Spanish origin
A surname from Spanish.
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 19,410 people named Arteaga in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 15,907 Americans. That is up 47% since 2000, when the Census counted 13,185.
Who is named Arteaga
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Arteaga identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 3.6% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 96%
- White (not Hispanic) 3.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
- Two or more races 0.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 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
Arteaga has the Soundex code A632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A632.
Other Spanish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Arteaga come from?
- Arteaga is Spanish in origin.
- How common is the surname Arteaga?
- 19,410 people in the United States had the surname Arteaga in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 15,907 Americans. It ranked 1,848th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Arteaga?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Arteaga identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 3.6% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Arteaga getting more or less common?
- More common. 13,185 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 19,410 in 2010, up 47%.