How common is the surname Salinas?

81,156 people in the United States had the surname Salinas in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 3,804 Americans. It ranked 393rd of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Salinas?

Shea Salinas, American soccer player (born 1986), followed by Lucas Salinas.

Where is the surname Salinas most common?

Wikidata records people named Salinas in the United States, Brazil and Bolivia.

Is the surname Salinas getting more or less common?

More common. 61,582 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 81,156 in 2010, up 32%.

The surname Salinas

A Spanish occupational surname, carried by 81,156 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S452

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Salinas is more common than 99.8% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Borrowed from Spanish Salinas, a metonymic occupational surname for a worker in a salt mine.

Salinas is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

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 81,156 people named Salinas in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 3,804 Americans. That is up 32% since 2000, when the Census counted 61,582.

#393

rank among US surnames

81,156

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+31.8%

change since 2000 (was #490)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#384	McCarthy	82,950	3,722
#385	Love	82,873	3,726
#386	Robles	82,458	3,744
#387	Cervantes	82,161	3,758
#388	Solis	82,146	3,758
#389	Erickson	82,085	3,761
#390	Reeves	81,978	3,766

Who is named Salinas

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

93% of people named Salinas identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 5.5% as white (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 93%
White (not Hispanic) 5.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
Two or more races 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Famous Salinass

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Shea Salinas
American soccer player (born 1986)
Lucas Salinas
Association football player, born 1995
Belisario Salinas
Bolivian politician and lawyer (1833-1893)

Notable Salinass come mostly from the United States (1), Brazil (1) and Bolivia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Salinas

Salinas has the Soundex code S452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S452.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Salinas come from?: Borrowed from Spanish Salinas, a metonymic occupational surname for a worker in a salt mine.
How common is the surname Salinas?: 81,156 people in the United States had the surname Salinas in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 3,804 Americans. It ranked 393rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Salinas?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Salinas identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 5.5% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Salinas?: Shea Salinas, American soccer player (born 1986), followed by Lucas Salinas.
Where is the surname Salinas most common?: Wikidata records people named Salinas in the United States, Brazil and Bolivia.
What type of surname is Salinas?: Salinas is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Salinas getting more or less common?: More common. 61,582 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 81,156 in 2010, up 32%.