How common is the surname Lopes?

18,310 people in the United States had the surname Lopes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 16,862 Americans. It ranked 1,976th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lopes?

In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Lopes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Lopes?

Wagner Lopes, Brazilian-Japanese association football player and manager, followed by Leila Lopes.

Where is the surname Lopes most common?

Wikidata records people named Lopes in Brazil, the United States and the United Kingdom and 1 other country.

Is the surname Lopes getting more or less common?

More common. 16,029 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 18,310 in 2010, up 14%.

The surname Lopes

A surname, carried by 18,310 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L120

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lopes is more common than 98.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 18,310 people named Lopes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 16,862 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 16,029.

#1,976

rank among US surnames

18,310

people in 2010

6.2

per 100,000 Americans

+14.2%

change since 2000 (was #2,074)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,967	Salcedo	18,387	16,792
#1,968	Presley	18,384	16,794
#1,969	Ernst	18,361	16,815
#1,970	Haywood	18,360	16,816
#1,971	Najera	18,340	16,835
#1,973	Stapleton	18,332	16,842
#1,974	Batista	18,323	16,850

Who is named Lopes

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

56% of people named Lopes identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 56%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 23%
Black (not Hispanic) 14%
Two or more races 4.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 3.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Lopess

26 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Wagner Lopes
Brazilian-Japanese association football player and manager, born 1969
Leila Lopes
Angolan beauty pageant titleholder, born 1986
Alexandre Lopes
Brazilian association football player, born 1974
Lisa Lopes
American singer and rapper (1971–2002)
Lopes Tigrão
Brazilian association football player, born 1979
Adriane Lopes
Brazilian politician, mayor of the city of Campo Grande, born 1976
Bruno Lopes
Brazilian association football player, born 1986
Ricardo Lopes
Brazilian association football player, born 1990
Éverton Lopes
Brazilian amateur boxer, born 1988
Breno Lopes
Brazilian footballer, born 1996
Wesley Lopes Beltrame
Brazilian footballer, born 1987
Laura Lopes
British art curator (born 1978); daughter of Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom

Notable Lopess come mostly from Brazil (20), the United States (3) and the United Kingdom (2).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Lopes

López

Lopes has the Soundex code L120, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L120.

Questions

How common is the surname Lopes?: 18,310 people in the United States had the surname Lopes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 16,862 Americans. It ranked 1,976th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lopes?: In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Lopes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Lopes?: Wagner Lopes, Brazilian-Japanese association football player and manager, followed by Leila Lopes.
Where is the surname Lopes most common?: Wikidata records people named Lopes in Brazil, the United States and the United Kingdom and 1 other country.
Is the surname Lopes getting more or less common?: More common. 16,029 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 18,310 in 2010, up 14%.