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    The surname Mireles

    A Spanish surname, carried by 17,186 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex M642

    Mireles: #2,105 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Mireles #2,105, 17,186 people Mireles: #2,105 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Mireles #2,105, 17,186 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mireles is more common than 98.7% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    Borrowed from Spanish Mireles.

    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 17,186 people named Mireles in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 17,965 Americans. That is up 34% since 2000, when the Census counted 12,863.

    #2,105
    rank among US surnames
    17,186
    people in 2010
    5.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +33.6%
    change since 2000 (was #2,590)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,096Boykin17,25517,893
    #2,097Saldivar17,25017,898
    #2,098Woodson17,24217,907
    #2,099Oakley17,23817,911
    #2,100Whittaker17,23417,915
    #2,102Huddleston17,23117,918
    #2,103Hoff17,22317,926

    Who is named Mireles

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

    93% of people named Mireles identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 5.8% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 93%
    • White (not Hispanic) 5.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
    • Two or more races 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Mireles

    Mireles has the Soundex code M642, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M642.

    Other Spanish surnames

    All 992 Spanish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Mireles come from?
    Borrowed from Spanish Mireles.
    How common is the surname Mireles?
    17,186 people in the United States had the surname Mireles in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,965 Americans. It ranked 2,105th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mireles?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Mireles identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 5.8% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Mireles getting more or less common?
    More common. 12,863 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,186 in 2010, up 34%.