Skip to content

The surname Banales

A Spanish surname, carried by 1,523 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex B542

Banales: #18,246 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Banales #18,246, 1,523 people Banales: #18,246 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Banales #18,246, 1,523 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Banales is more common than 88.8% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Borrowed from Spanish Bañales.

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 1,523 people named Banales in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 202,722 Americans. That is up 41% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,077.

#18,246
rank among US surnames
1,523
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+41.4%
change since 2000 (was #22,322)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#18,237Shisler1,525202,456
#18,242Makris1,524202,589
#18,246Waltrip1,523202,722
#18,253Berberich1,522202,855

Who is named Banales

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

95% of people named Banales identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 4.3% as white (not Hispanic).

  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 95%
  • White (not Hispanic) 4.3%
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

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Banales

Banales has the Soundex code B542, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B542.

Other Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Banales come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Bañales.
How common is the surname Banales?
1,523 people in the United States had the surname Banales in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 202,722 Americans. It ranked 18,246th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Banales?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Banales identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 4.3% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Banales getting more or less common?
More common. 1,077 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,523 in 2010, up 41%.