How common is the surname Sahagun?

3,421 people in the United States had the surname Sahagun in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 90,250 Americans. It ranked 9,501st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Sahagun getting more or less common?

More common. 2,600 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,421 in 2010, up 32%.

The surname Sahagun

A Spanish place surname, carried by 3,421 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S250

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sahagun is more common than 94.1% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Sahagún. Typically a Mexican and Filipino surname.

Sahagun is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

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 3,421 people named Sahagun in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 90,250 Americans. That is up 32% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,600.

#9,501

rank among US surnames

3,421

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+31.6%

change since 2000 (was #11,188)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,493	Pickle	3,425	90,145
#9,495	Kettler	3,424	90,171
#9,496	Gaughan	3,423	90,197
#9,501	Beery	3,421	90,250
#9,503	Naugle	3,420	90,276
#9,506	Mosely	3,419	90,303
#9,510	Ogilvie	3,418	90,329

Who is named Sahagun

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

82% of people named Sahagun identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 12% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 5.2% as white (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 82%
Asian and Pacific Islander 12%
White (not Hispanic) 5.2%
Two or more races 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

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 Sahagun

Sagan

Sahagun has the Soundex code S250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S250.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Sahagun come from?: Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Sahagún. Typically a Mexican and Filipino surname.
How common is the surname Sahagun?: 3,421 people in the United States had the surname Sahagun in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 90,250 Americans. It ranked 9,501st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sahagun?: In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Sahagun identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 12% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
What type of surname is Sahagun?: Sahagun is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Sahagun getting more or less common?: More common. 2,600 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,421 in 2010, up 32%.