The surname Polanco
A Spanish place surname, carried by 19,688 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex P452
Origin
Spanish origin
From Spanish, of toponymic origin.
Polanco 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 19,688 people named Polanco in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 15,682 Americans. That is up 41% since 2000, when the Census counted 13,938.
Who is named Polanco
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Polanco identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 3.7% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 95%
- White (not Hispanic) 3.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
- Two or more races 0.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 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
Polanco has the Soundex code P452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P452.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Polanco come from?
- From Spanish, of toponymic origin.
- How common is the surname Polanco?
- 19,688 people in the United States had the surname Polanco in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 15,682 Americans. It ranked 1,820th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Polanco?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Polanco identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 3.7% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Polanco?
- Polanco is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Polanco getting more or less common?
- More common. 13,938 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 19,688 in 2010, up 41%.