The surname Retana
A surname, carried by 3,710 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex R350
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,710 people named Retana in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 83,220 Americans. That is up 52% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,442.
Who is named Retana
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Retana 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 0.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Retana has the Soundex code R350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R350.
Questions
- How common is the surname Retana?
- 3,710 people in the United States had the surname Retana in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,220 Americans. It ranked 8,832nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Retana?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Retana identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 4.2% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Retana getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,442 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,710 in 2010, up 52%.