The surname Portuondo
A Spanish place surname, carried by 523 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex P635
Origin
Spanish origin
Borrowed from Spanish Portuondo, a topographic surname from Basque portuondo (“close to the port”).
Portuondo 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 523 people named Portuondo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 590,336 Americans. That is up 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 446.
Who is named Portuondo
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Portuondo identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 8.6% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 88%
- White (not Hispanic) 8.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Portuondo has the Soundex code P635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P635.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Portuondo come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Portuondo, a topographic surname from Basque portuondo (“close to the port”).
- How common is the surname Portuondo?
- 523 people in the United States had the surname Portuondo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 590,336 Americans. It ranked 41,579th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Portuondo?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Portuondo identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 8.6% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Portuondo?
- Portuondo is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Portuondo getting more or less common?
- More common. 446 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 523 in 2010, up 17%.