# Chavez (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/chavez/  
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 | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 250,898 |
| US rank (2010) | 83 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 1,231 people |
| Change since 2000 | +35% (185,865 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Spanish Chávez, variant of Chaves, from Galician Chaves (“Chaves in Portugal and its castle”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Chavez 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) | 5.0% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 93% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 0.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Chavez in Argentina, the United States, Bolivia and Venezuela.

## People named Chavez

- Hugo Chávez, 30th and 33rd President of Venezuela
- Paulina Chávez, American actress
- Andrés Chávez, Argentine footballer
- Lori Chavez-DeRemer, American politician (born 1968)
- Viviana Chávez, Argentine long-distance runner
- Gabriela Patricia Chávez, Argentinian association football player
- Lucas Chávez, Bolivian footballer (born 2003)
- Jesús Sagredo, Bolivian association football player

## Similar surnames

Chavis, Chaves, Chevez, Caves, Cuevas, Capps, Cobbs, Cobos, Coppock, Coppage, Capozzi, Capasso.

## 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.