# Bustamante (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bustamante/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Spanish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Spanish |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 24,536 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,454 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 12,583 people |
| Change since 2000 | +34% (18,363 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Bustamante. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bustamante in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 7.0% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 89% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 0.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Bustamante in Bolivia, New Spain, Brazil, the United States and Argentina.

## People named Bustamante

- Anastasio Bustamante, 4th President of Mexico (1780-1853)
- José Bustamante, Bolivian footballer (born 1907)
- José Bustamante, Bolivian footballer (born 1921)
- Murilo Bustamante, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- Albert Bustamante, American politician (1935–2021)
- Luis Bustamante, Argentine footballer

## Similar surnames

Boston, Buxton, Bastian, Boughton, Baisden, Bastien, Bogdan, Becton, Bastin, Basden.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.