The surname Venegas
A Spanish surname, carried by 20,851 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex V522
Origin
Spanish origin
A surname from Spanish.
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 20,851 people named Venegas in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,807 Americans. That is up 42% since 2000, when the Census counted 14,677.
Who is named Venegas
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Venegas identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 3.7% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 95%
- White (not Hispanic) 3.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
- 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
Venegas has the Soundex code V522, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V522.
Other Spanish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Venegas come from?
- Venegas is Spanish in origin.
- How common is the surname Venegas?
- 20,851 people in the United States had the surname Venegas in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,807 Americans. It ranked 1,722nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Venegas?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Venegas identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 3.7% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Venegas getting more or less common?
- More common. 14,677 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 20,851 in 2010, up 42%.