The surname Borquez
A Spanish surname, carried by 1,698 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B622
Origin
Spanish origin
Borrowed from Spanish Bórquez. This surname is mostly found in Chile.
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 1,698 people named Borquez in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 181,829 Americans. That is up 27% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,334.
Who is named Borquez
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Borquez identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 8.9% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 90%
- White (not Hispanic) 8.9%
- Two or more races 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Borquez has the Soundex code B622, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B622.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Borquez come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Bórquez. This surname is mostly found in Chile.
- How common is the surname Borquez?
- 1,698 people in the United States had the surname Borquez in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 181,829 Americans. It ranked 16,809th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Borquez?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Borquez identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 8.9% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Borquez getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,334 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,698 in 2010, up 27%.