# Oaxaca (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/oaxaca/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Spanish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Spanish |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 651 |
| US rank (2010) | 34,707 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 474,263 people |
| Change since 2000 | +45% (450 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /wəˈhæ.kə/, 3 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Oaxaca, from Classical Nahuatl Huāxyacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (huaje) (Leucaena leucocephala) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Oaxaca 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) | 6.0% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 94% |
| Two or more races | 0.0% |

## Similar surnames

Oakes, Ocasio, Osowski, Okeke.

## 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.