How common is the surname Tejeda?

14,240 people in the United States had the surname Tejeda in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 21,682 Americans. It ranked 2,541st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Tejeda getting more or less common?

More common. 10,071 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 14,240 in 2010, up 41%.

The surname Tejeda

A Spanish surname, carried by 14,240 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex T230

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tejeda is more common than 98.4% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

A surname from Spanish.

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 14,240 people named Tejeda in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 21,682 Americans. That is up 41% since 2000, when the Census counted 10,071.

#2,541

rank among US surnames

14,240

people in 2010

4.8

per 100,000 Americans

+41.4%

change since 2000 (was #3,256)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,532	McDonnell	14,309	21,577
#2,533	Shelley	14,300	21,591
#2,534	Newcomb	14,292	21,603
#2,535	Blackman	14,278	21,624
#2,536	Augustine	14,268	21,639
#2,537	Mark	14,265	21,644
#2,538	Creech	14,264	21,645

Who is named Tejeda

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

96% of people named Tejeda identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 3.1% as white (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 96%
White (not Hispanic) 3.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
Two or more races 0.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

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 Tejeda

Tejada

Tejeda has the Soundex code T230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T230.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Tejeda come from?: Tejeda is Spanish in origin.
How common is the surname Tejeda?: 14,240 people in the United States had the surname Tejeda in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 21,682 Americans. It ranked 2,541st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Tejeda?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Tejeda identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 3.1% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Tejeda getting more or less common?: More common. 10,071 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 14,240 in 2010, up 41%.