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The surname Quinones

A Spanish surname, carried by 34,468 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex Q552

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Quinones is more common than 99.4% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Anglicization of Spanish Quiñones

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 34,468 people named Quinones in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 8,957 Americans. That is up 26% since 2000, when the Census counted 27,290.

#1,014
rank among US surnames
34,468
people in 2010
12
per 100,000 Americans
+26.3%
change since 2000 (was #1,177)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#1,005Petty34,8828,851
#1,006McGrath34,8718,854
#1,007Kaufman34,8448,861
#1,008Holden34,8248,866
#1,009Krause34,7228,892
#1,010Baird34,7218,892
#1,011Riggs34,5068,948

Who is named Quinones

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

92% of people named Quinones identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 5.6% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 92%
  • White (not Hispanic) 5.6%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
  • Two or more races 0.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Famous Quinoness

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

  • María Asunción Quiñones
    Association football player, born 1996

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Quinones

Quinones has the Soundex code Q552, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Q552.

Other Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Quinones come from?
Anglicization of Spanish Quiñones
How common is the surname Quinones?
34,468 people in the United States had the surname Quinones in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 8,957 Americans. It ranked 1,014th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Quinones?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Quinones identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 5.6% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Quinones?
María Asunción Quiñones, association football player.
Where is the surname Quinones most common?
Wikidata records people named Quinones in Spain.
Is the surname Quinones getting more or less common?
More common. 27,290 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 34,468 in 2010, up 26%.