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    The surname Orozco

    A Basque place surname, carried by 65,904 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex O620

    Orozco: #512 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Orozco #512, 65,904 people Orozco: #512 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott Orozco #512, 65,904 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Orozco is more common than 99.7% of them.

    Origin

    Basque origin

    From Spanish Orozco, a habitational surname from Basque.

    Orozco is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 20 Basque surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 65,904 people named Orozco in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 4,685 Americans. That is up 46% since 2000, when the Census counted 45,289.

    #512
    rank among US surnames
    65,904
    people in 2010
    22
    per 100,000 Americans
    +45.5%
    change since 2000 (was #690)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #503Buchanan66,6484,632
    #504Casey66,5564,639
    #505Floyd66,4544,646
    #506Patton66,2934,657
    #507Ibarra66,0634,674
    #508Ball66,0594,674
    #509Tyler66,0564,674

    Who is named Orozco

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

    96% of people named Orozco identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 3.4% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 96%
    • White (not Hispanic) 3.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%
    • Two or more races 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Famous Orozcos

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Olga Orozco
      Argentine writer (1920-1999)
    • Michael Orozco Fiscal
      American soccer player, born 1986
    • John Orozco
      American gymnast, born 1992

    Notable Orozcos come mostly from the United States (2) and Argentina (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Orozco

    Orozco has the Soundex code O620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O620.

    Other Basque surnames

    All 20 Basque surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Orozco come from?
    From Spanish Orozco, a habitational surname from Basque.
    How common is the surname Orozco?
    65,904 people in the United States had the surname Orozco in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 4,685 Americans. It ranked 512th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Orozco?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Orozco identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 3.4% as white (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Orozco?
    Olga Orozco, Argentine writer (1920-1999), followed by Michael Orozco Fiscal.
    Where is the surname Orozco most common?
    Wikidata records people named Orozco in the United States and Argentina.
    What type of surname is Orozco?
    Orozco is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Orozco getting more or less common?
    More common. 45,289 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 65,904 in 2010, up 46%.