Where does the surname Portalatin come from?

Portalatin is Spanish in origin.

How common is the surname Portalatin?

1,035 people in the United States had the surname Portalatin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 298,305 Americans. It ranked 24,237th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Portalatin getting more or less common?

More common. 897 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,035 in 2010, up 15%.

The surname Portalatin

A Spanish surname, carried by 1,035 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex P634

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Portalatin is more common than 85.1% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

A surname from Spanish.

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 1,035 people named Portalatin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 298,305 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 897.

#24,237

rank among US surnames

1,035

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+15.4%

change since 2000 (was #25,775)

Who is named Portalatin

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

91% of people named Portalatin identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 7.2% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 91%
White (not Hispanic) 7.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Portalatin

Portalatin has the Soundex code P634, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P634.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Portalatin come from?: Portalatin is Spanish in origin.
How common is the surname Portalatin?: 1,035 people in the United States had the surname Portalatin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 298,305 Americans. It ranked 24,237th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Portalatin?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Portalatin identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 7.2% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Portalatin getting more or less common?: More common. 897 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,035 in 2010, up 15%.