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    The surname Celaya

    A Spanish place surname, carried by 4,664 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C400

    Celaya: #7,173 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Celaya #7,173, 4,664 people Celaya: #7,173 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Celaya #7,173, 4,664 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Celaya is more common than 95.6% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    Borrowed from Spanish Celaya, a habitational surname from Basque Zelaia.

    Celaya 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 4,664 people named Celaya in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 66,198 Americans. That is up 27% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,662.

    #7,173
    rank among US surnames
    4,664
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +27.4%
    change since 2000 (was #8,319)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,165Rook4,66866,141
    #7,167Lomas4,66766,155
    #7,171Arneson4,66566,183
    #7,173Celaya4,66466,198
    #7,174Rude4,66166,240
    #7,177Valero4,66066,254

    Who is named Celaya

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

    88% of people named Celaya identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 10% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 88%
    • White (not Hispanic) 10%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.7%
    • Two or more races 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%

    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 Celaya

    Celaya has the Soundex code C400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C400.

    Other Spanish surnames

    All 992 Spanish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Celaya come from?
    Borrowed from Spanish Celaya, a habitational surname from Basque Zelaia.
    How common is the surname Celaya?
    4,664 people in the United States had the surname Celaya in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 66,198 Americans. It ranked 7,173rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Celaya?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Celaya identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 10% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Celaya?
    Celaya is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Celaya getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,662 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,664 in 2010, up 27%.