The surname Vilchez
A Spanish surname, carried by 1,841 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex V422
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 1,841 people named Vilchez in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 167,705 Americans. That is up 60% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,152.
Who is named Vilchez
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Vilchez identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 6.4% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 93%
- White (not Hispanic) 6.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Vilchez
Vilchez has the Soundex code V422, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V422.
Other Spanish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Vilchez come from?
- Vilchez is Spanish in origin.
- How common is the surname Vilchez?
- 1,841 people in the United States had the surname Vilchez in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 167,705 Americans. It ranked 15,818th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Vilchez?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Vilchez identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 6.4% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Vilchez getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,152 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,841 in 2010, up 60%.