The surname Urrea
A Spanish surname, carried by 2,360 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex U600
Origin
Spanish origin
Borrowed from Spanish Urrea, itself of Basque origin.
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 2,360 people named Urrea in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 130,824 Americans. That is up 32% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,785.
Who is named Urrea
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Urrea identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 7.9% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 91%
- White (not Hispanic) 7.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- Two or more races 0.2%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Urrea has the Soundex code U600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code U600.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Urrea come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Urrea, itself of Basque origin.
- How common is the surname Urrea?
- 2,360 people in the United States had the surname Urrea in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 130,824 Americans. It ranked 13,007th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Urrea?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Urrea identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 7.9% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Urrea getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,785 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,360 in 2010, up 32%.