How common is the surname Baez?

31,298 people in the United States had the surname Baez in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 9,865 Americans. It ranked 1,121st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Baez?

Joan Baez, American contemporary folk musician (born 1941), followed by Sebastián Báez.

Where is the surname Baez most common?

Wikidata records people named Baez in the United States, Argentina and Nicaragua and 1 other country.

How do you pronounce Baez?

Baez is /ˈbaɪ.ɛz/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Baez getting more or less common?

More common. 22,512 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 31,298 in 2010, up 39%.

The surname Baez

A surname, carried by 31,298 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈbaɪ.ɛz/ 2 syllables Soundex B200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Baez is more common than 99.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 31,298 people named Baez in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 9,865 Americans. That is up 39% since 2000, when the Census counted 22,512.

#1,121

rank among US surnames

31,298

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+39%

change since 2000 (was #1,454)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,112	Donahue	31,563	9,782
#1,113	Kinney	31,558	9,783
#1,114	Donnelly	31,505	9,800
#1,115	Britt	31,474	9,810
#1,116	Craft	31,452	9,816
#1,117	Odell	31,349	9,849
#1,118	Daly	31,330	9,855

Who is named Baez

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

94% of people named Baez identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 4.3% as white (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 94%
White (not Hispanic) 4.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
Two or more races 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Famous Baezs

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Joan Baez
American contemporary folk musician (born 1941)
Sebastián Báez
Argentine tennis player (born 2000)
John C. Baez
American mathematician and mathematical physicist, born 1961
Albert Báez
American physicist (1912-2007)
Silvio José Báez Ortega
Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, born 1958
Danys Báez
Baseball player, born 1977

Notable Baezs come mostly from the United States (3), Argentina (1) and Nicaragua (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Baez

Baez has the Soundex code B200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B200.

Questions

How common is the surname Baez?: 31,298 people in the United States had the surname Baez in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 9,865 Americans. It ranked 1,121st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Baez?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Baez identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 4.3% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Baez?: Joan Baez, American contemporary folk musician (born 1941), followed by Sebastián Báez.
Where is the surname Baez most common?: Wikidata records people named Baez in the United States, Argentina and Nicaragua and 1 other country.
How do you pronounce Baez?: Baez is /ˈbaɪ.ɛz/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Baez getting more or less common?: More common. 22,512 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 31,298 in 2010, up 39%.