The surname Vaquera
A Spanish surname, carried by 2,269 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex V260
Origin
Spanish origin
Borrowed from Spanish Vaquera, feminine form of Vaquero.
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 2,269 people named Vaquera in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 136,071 Americans. That is up 31% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,734.
Who is named Vaquera
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Vaquera identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 4.1% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 95%
- White (not Hispanic) 4.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Baquera
Surnames that sound like Vaquera
Vaquera has the Soundex code V260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V260.
Other Spanish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Vaquera come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Vaquera, feminine form of Vaquero.
- How common is the surname Vaquera?
- 2,269 people in the United States had the surname Vaquera in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 136,071 Americans. It ranked 13,431st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Vaquera?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Vaquera identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 4.1% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Vaquera getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,734 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,269 in 2010, up 31%.
- What are other spellings of Vaquera?
- Baquera.