The surname Trejo
A Spanish place surname, carried by 41,021 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T620
Origin
Spanish origin
Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Trejo.
Trejo 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 41,021 people named Trejo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 7,527 Americans. That is up 50% since 2000, when the Census counted 27,383.
Who is named Trejo
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Trejo identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 4.0% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 95%
- White (not Hispanic) 4.0%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
- Two or more races 0.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.1%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Trejo
Trejo has the Soundex code T620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T620.
Other Spanish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Trejo come from?
- Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Trejo.
- How common is the surname Trejo?
- 41,021 people in the United States had the surname Trejo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 7,527 Americans. It ranked 843rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Trejo?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Trejo identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 4.0% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Trejo?
- Trejo is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Trejo getting more or less common?
- More common. 27,383 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 41,021 in 2010, up 50%.