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The ORTEGO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,476 11628 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 117 28238 0 2
Change since 1880 +2359 +16610 +N/A +7
Other Countries
Australia 1 390386 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ORTEGO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 1,768 335 0.040 396
Texas 232 7944 0.001 11
California 87 26036 0.000 3
Mississippi 45 5583 0.002 16
Florida 27 53771 0.000 2
Top States for ORTEGO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 1,768 335 0.040 396
Mississippi 45 5583 0.002 16
Texas 232 7944 0.001 11
Washington DC 6 9917 0.001 10
New Mexico 15 9857 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of ORTEGO

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 ORTEGO 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 ORTEGO 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 ORTEGO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 342 13.81
Asian/Pacific 26 1.05
Mixed Race 21 0.85
White (Caucasian) 2,073 83.72
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of ORTEGO in historical publications

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

Similar names to ORTEGO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORTEGO.

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 ORTEGO

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