How common is the surname Enriquez?

41,271 people in the United States had the surname Enriquez in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 7,481 Americans. It ranked 837th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Enriquez?

Juana Enríquez de Mendoza y Fernández de Córdoba, Aragonese queen, followed by Mariana Enriquez.

Where is the surname Enriquez most common?

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

Is the surname Enriquez getting more or less common?

More common. 29,886 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 41,271 in 2010, up 38%.

The surname Enriquez

A Spanish surname, carried by 41,271 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex E562

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Enriquez is more common than 99.5% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Borrowed from Spanish Enríquez.

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 41,271 people named Enriquez in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 7,481 Americans. That is up 38% since 2000, when the Census counted 29,886.

#837

rank among US surnames

41,271

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+38.1%

change since 2000 (was #1,072)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#828	Bravo	41,700	7,404
#829	Noble	41,667	7,410
#830	Spears	41,665	7,410
#831	Weeks	41,565	7,428
#832	Corona	41,553	7,430
#833	Frederick	41,394	7,459
#834	Buckley	41,348	7,467

Who is named Enriquez

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

87% of people named Enriquez identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 7.9% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 4.0% as white (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 87%
Asian and Pacific Islander 7.9%
White (not Hispanic) 4.0%
Two or more races 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Famous Enriquezs

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Juana Enríquez de Mendoza y Fernández de Córdoba
Aragonese queen, 1425–1468
Mariana Enriquez
Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer, born 1973
Anna Maria Perez de Tagle
American actress, singer and model, born 1990

Notable Enriquezs come mostly from Crown of Castile (1), Argentina (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Enriquez

Enrique

Enriquez has the Soundex code E562, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E562.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Enriquez come from?: Borrowed from Spanish Enríquez.
How common is the surname Enriquez?: 41,271 people in the United States had the surname Enriquez in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 7,481 Americans. It ranked 837th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Enriquez?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Enriquez identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 7.9% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Who is the most famous person named Enriquez?: Juana Enríquez de Mendoza y Fernández de Córdoba, Aragonese queen, followed by Mariana Enriquez.
Where is the surname Enriquez most common?: Wikidata records people named Enriquez in Crown of Castile, Argentina and the United States.
Is the surname Enriquez getting more or less common?: More common. 29,886 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 41,271 in 2010, up 38%.