# Enriquez (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/enriquez/  
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) | 41,271 |
| US rank (2010) | 837 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 7,481 people |
| Change since 2000 | +38% (29,886 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Enríquez.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Enriquez 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) | 4.0% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 87% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 7.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 0.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Enriquez in Crown of Castile, Argentina and the United States.

## People named Enriquez

- Juana Enríquez de Mendoza y Fernández de Córdoba, Aragonese queen
- Mariana Enriquez, Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer
- Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress, singer and model

## Similar surnames

Enrique, Emerson, Enright, Emerick, Emrick, Emrich, Emmerich, Emmerson.

## 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.