The surname Vara
A Spanish surname, carried by 3,307 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex V600
Origin
Spanish origin
Borrowed from Spanish Vara.
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 3,307 people named Vara in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 93,361 Americans. That is up 23% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,698.
Who is named Vara
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
67% of people named Vara identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 28% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 67%
- White (not Hispanic) 28%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 2.8%
- Two or more races 0.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Vara has the Soundex code V600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V600.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Vara come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Vara.
- How common is the surname Vara?
- 3,307 people in the United States had the surname Vara in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 93,361 Americans. It ranked 9,790th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Vara?
- In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Vara identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 28% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Vara getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,698 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,307 in 2010, up 23%.