The surname Lezama
A Spanish place surname, carried by 3,840 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex L250
Origin
Spanish origin
Borrowed from Spanish Lezama, a habitational surname of Basque origin.
Lezama is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
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 3,840 people named Lezama in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,402 Americans. That is up 66% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,317.
Who is named Lezama
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Lezama identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 7.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 89%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.4%
- White (not Hispanic) 2.6%
- Two or more races 0.6%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Lezama has the Soundex code L250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L250.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Lezama come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Lezama, a habitational surname of Basque origin.
- How common is the surname Lezama?
- 3,840 people in the United States had the surname Lezama in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,402 Americans. It ranked 8,578th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lezama?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Lezama identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 7.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Lezama?
- Lezama is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Lezama getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,317 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,840 in 2010, up 66%.