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    The surname Preciado

    A surname, carried by 12,455 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex P623

    Preciado: #2,883 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Preciado #2,883, 12,455 people Preciado: #2,883 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Preciado #2,883, 12,455 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Preciado is more common than 98.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 12,455 people named Preciado in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 24,789 Americans. That is up 30% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,572.

    #2,883
    rank among US surnames
    12,455
    people in 2010
    4.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +30.1%
    change since 2000 (was #3,422)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,874Crawley12,52324,654
    #2,875Wheatley12,52024,660
    #2,876Linn12,50824,684
    #2,877Shockley12,50424,692
    #2,878Chisholm12,50324,694
    #2,879Dong12,46624,767
    #2,880McCurdy12,46324,773

    Who is named Preciado

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

    95% of people named Preciado identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 4.2% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 95%
    • White (not Hispanic) 4.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
    • Two or more races 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

    Surnames that sound like Preciado

    Preciado has the Soundex code P623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P623.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Preciado?
    12,455 people in the United States had the surname Preciado in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 24,789 Americans. It ranked 2,883rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Preciado?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Preciado identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 4.2% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Preciado getting more or less common?
    More common. 9,572 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,455 in 2010, up 30%.