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The surname Colmenero

A Spanish surname, carried by 1,999 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex C455

Colmenero: #14,827 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Colmenero #14,827, 1,999 people Colmenero: #14,827 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Colmenero #14,827, 1,999 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Colmenero is more common than 90.9% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

A surname from Spanish.

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 1,999 people named Colmenero in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 154,450 Americans. That is up 26% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,581.

#14,827
rank among US surnames
1,999
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+26.4%
change since 2000 (was #16,673)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#14,821Reigle2,001154,296
#14,824Stoneman2,000154,373
#14,827Caudell1,999154,450
#14,834Dames1,998154,527

Who is named Colmenero

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

92% of people named Colmenero identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 6.7% as white (not Hispanic).

  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 92%
  • White (not Hispanic) 6.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Colmenero

Colmenero has the Soundex code C455, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C455.

Other Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Colmenero come from?
Colmenero is Spanish in origin.
How common is the surname Colmenero?
1,999 people in the United States had the surname Colmenero in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 154,450 Americans. It ranked 14,827th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Colmenero?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Colmenero identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 6.7% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Colmenero getting more or less common?
More common. 1,581 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,999 in 2010, up 26%.