How common is the surname Quintanilla?

22,581 people in the United States had the surname Quintanilla in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 13,673 Americans. It ranked 1,586th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Quintanilla?

Carlos Quintanilla, Bolivian diplomat (1888-1964), followed by A.B. Quintanilla.

Where is the surname Quintanilla most common?

Wikidata records people named Quintanilla in the United States and Bolivia.

Is the surname Quintanilla getting more or less common?

More common. 15,849 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 22,581 in 2010, up 43%.

The surname Quintanilla

A Spanish surname, carried by 22,581 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex Q535

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Quintanilla is more common than 99% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Borrowed from Spanish Quintanilla.

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 22,581 people named Quintanilla in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 13,673 Americans. That is up 43% since 2000, when the Census counted 15,849.

#1,586

rank among US surnames

22,581

people in 2010

7.7

per 100,000 Americans

+42.5%

change since 2000 (was #2,102)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,577	Neff	22,764	13,563
#1,578	Mead	22,727	13,585
#1,579	Casillas	22,710	13,595
#1,580	Lilly	22,662	13,624
#1,581	Biggs	22,641	13,637
#1,582	Yeager	22,634	13,641
#1,583	Godwin	22,628	13,644

Who is named Quintanilla

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

93% of people named Quintanilla identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 4.3% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 93%
White (not Hispanic) 4.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.9%
Two or more races 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Famous Quintanillas

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Carlos Quintanilla
Bolivian diplomat (1888-1964)
A.B. Quintanilla
American record producer, songwriter and musician, born 1963
Abraham Quintanilla
American singer and talent manager (1939–2025)

Notable Quintanillas come mostly from the United States (2) and Bolivia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Quintanilla

Quintanilla has the Soundex code Q535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Q535.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Quintanilla come from?: Borrowed from Spanish Quintanilla.
How common is the surname Quintanilla?: 22,581 people in the United States had the surname Quintanilla in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 13,673 Americans. It ranked 1,586th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Quintanilla?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Quintanilla identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 4.3% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Quintanilla?: Carlos Quintanilla, Bolivian diplomat (1888-1964), followed by A.B. Quintanilla.
Where is the surname Quintanilla most common?: Wikidata records people named Quintanilla in the United States and Bolivia.
Is the surname Quintanilla getting more or less common?: More common. 15,849 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 22,581 in 2010, up 43%.