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The surname Cervantez

A surname, carried by 4,874 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C615

Cervantez: #6,898 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cervantez #6,898, 4,874 people Cervantez: #6,898 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cervantez #6,898, 4,874 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cervantez is more common than 95.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,874 people named Cervantez in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 63,345 Americans. That is up 19% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,105.

#6,898
rank among US surnames
4,874
people in 2010
1.6
per 100,000 Americans
+18.7%
change since 2000 (was #7,482)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#6,892Siu4,87763,306
#6,894Welty4,87663,319
#6,896Abramson4,87563,332
#6,898Cervantez4,87463,345
#6,899Erazo4,87363,358
#6,900Feaster4,87163,384
#6,903Eades4,87063,397

Who is named Cervantez

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

93% of people named Cervantez identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 6.1% as white (not Hispanic).

  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 93%
  • White (not Hispanic) 6.1%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
  • Two or more races 0.3%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Cervantez

Cervantez has the Soundex code C615, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C615.

Questions

How common is the surname Cervantez?
4,874 people in the United States had the surname Cervantez in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,345 Americans. It ranked 6,898th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cervantez?
In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Cervantez identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 6.1% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Cervantez getting more or less common?
More common. 4,105 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,874 in 2010, up 19%.