# Rojas (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/rojas/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Spanish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Spanish |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 108,421 |
| US rank (2010) | 285 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 2,848 people |
| Change since 2000 | +48% (73,071 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Rojas.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Rojas in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 4.1% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 94% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 0.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Rojas in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, the United States, Brazil and Ecuador.

## People named Rojas

- Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 26th President of Colombia (1900-1975)
- Benjamín Rojas, Argentine actor
- Alfredo Rojas, Argentine footballer (1937–2023)
- Darío Rojas, Bolivian footballer
- Clemente Rojas, boxer
- Bruno Rojas, Bolivian sprinter
- Alberto Rojas, American Roman-Catholic priest of Mexican descent
- Ariel Rojas, Argentine footballer
- Ricardo Rojas, Argentine writer (1882-1957)
- Gabriel Rojas, Argentinian association footballer
- Isaac Francisco del Ángel Rojas, Argentine politician and admiral (1906-1993)
- Juliana Rojas, Brazilian filmmaker (born 1981)

and 3 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Riojas, Rosas, Roxas, Raygoza, Rakes, Regis, Ragusa, Ruzicka, Rogowski, Rakowski, Rezac, Rozek.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.