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    The surname Tierrablanca

    A Spanish place surname, carried by 533 people in the United States.

    4 syllables Soundex T614

    Tierrablanca: #40,909 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Tierrablanca #40,909, 533 people Tierrablanca: #40,909 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Tierrablanca #40,909, 533 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tierrablanca is more common than 74.8% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    Borrowed from Spanish Tierrablanca, a Mexican topographic surname from tierra (“earth, land, ground”) + blanca (“white”).

    Tierrablanca 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 533 people named Tierrablanca in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 579,260 Americans. That is up 90% since 2000, when the Census counted 280.

    #40,909
    rank among US surnames
    533
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +90.4%
    change since 2000 (was #66,073)

    Who is named Tierrablanca

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

    98% of people named Tierrablanca identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 1.7% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 98%
    • White (not Hispanic) 1.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Other Spanish surnames

    All 992 Spanish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Tierrablanca come from?
    Borrowed from Spanish Tierrablanca, a Mexican topographic surname from tierra (“earth, land, ground”) + blanca (“white”).
    How common is the surname Tierrablanca?
    533 people in the United States had the surname Tierrablanca in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 579,260 Americans. It ranked 40,909th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tierrablanca?
    In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Tierrablanca identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 1.7% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Tierrablanca?
    Tierrablanca is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Tierrablanca getting more or less common?
    More common. 280 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 533 in 2010, up 90%.