# Valladares (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/valladares/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Spanish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Spanish |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 11,901 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,012 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 25,943 people |
| Change since 2000 | +58% (7,516 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Valladares.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Valladares in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 4.3% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 94% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 0.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Valladares in the United States and Argentina.

## People named Valladares

- Armando Valladares, American diplomat and former Cuban prisoner
- Leda Valladares, Argentinian composer (1919-2012)

## Similar surnames

Valderas, Valderrama, Villatoro, Valtierra, Veltri, Voltaire.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.