How common is the surname Carranza?

28,581 people in the United States had the surname Carranza in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 10,802 Americans. It ranked 1,235th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Carranza?

Jovita Carranza, American businesswoman, followed by Julián Carranza.

Where is the surname Carranza most common?

Wikidata records people named Carranza in the United States and Argentina.

Is the surname Carranza getting more or less common?

More common. 19,375 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 28,581 in 2010, up 48%.

The surname Carranza

A Spanish place surname, carried by 28,581 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C652

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Carranza is more common than 99.2% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Borrowed from Spanish Carranza, Castilianized form of Basque Karrantza, a habitational surname.

Carranza is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

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 28,581 people named Carranza in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 10,802 Americans. That is up 48% since 2000, when the Census counted 19,375.

#1,235

rank among US surnames

28,581

people in 2010

9.7

per 100,000 Americans

+47.5%

change since 2000 (was #1,697)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,226	Sharpe	28,879	10,691
#1,227	Guy	28,852	10,701
#1,229	Rankin	28,821	10,713
#1,230	Godfrey	28,734	10,745
#1,231	Chamberlain	28,727	10,748
#1,232	Fink	28,701	10,757
#1,233	Hollis	28,617	10,789

Who is named Carranza

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

95% of people named Carranza identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 4.0% as white (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 95%
White (not Hispanic) 4.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 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 Carranzas

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Jovita Carranza
American businesswoman, born 1949
Julián Carranza
Argentinian association football player, born 2000

Notable Carranzas come mostly from the United States (1) and Argentina (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Carranza

Carranza has the Soundex code C652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C652.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Carranza come from?: Borrowed from Spanish Carranza, Castilianized form of Basque Karrantza, a habitational surname.
How common is the surname Carranza?: 28,581 people in the United States had the surname Carranza in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 10,802 Americans. It ranked 1,235th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Carranza?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Carranza identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 4.0% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Carranza?: Jovita Carranza, American businesswoman, followed by Julián Carranza.
Where is the surname Carranza most common?: Wikidata records people named Carranza in the United States and Argentina.
What type of surname is Carranza?: Carranza is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Carranza getting more or less common?: More common. 19,375 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 28,581 in 2010, up 48%.