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The NUNEZ surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 90,208 306 0.033 334
United States (1880 census) 358 12498 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +89850 +12192 +0.032 +327
Other Countries
Australia 203 7457 0.001 12
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for NUNEZ by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 24,689 121 0.073 729
Texas 11,534 251 0.055 553
Florida 10,220 197 0.064 639
New York 9,334 161 0.049 492
New Jersey 4,422 167 0.053 526
Top States for NUNEZ by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 24,689 121 0.073 729
Arizona 3,514 169 0.068 685
New Mexico 1,217 171 0.067 669
Florida 10,220 197 0.064 639
Nevada 1,137 207 0.057 569

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NUNEZ live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NUNEZ represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NUNEZ in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NUNEZ by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NUNEZ

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NUNEZ surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the NUNEZ surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of NUNEZ in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 722 0.8
Black/African American 695 0.77
Mixed Race 424 0.47
Native American/Alaskan 271 0.3
White (Hispanic) 82,279 91.21
White (Caucasian) 5,809 6.44

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NUNEZ surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of NUNEZ in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of NUNEZ.

Similar names to NUNEZ

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NUNEZ.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for NUNEZ

The following words are slight variants of NUNEZ that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.