The CERVANTES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	57,685	520	0.021	214
United States (1880 census)	56	46490	0	1
Change since 1880	+57629	+45970	+N/A	+213
Other Countries
Australia	24	45948	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for CERVANTES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	25,935	132	0.077	766
Texas	11,506	285	0.055	552
Illinois	3,733	416	0.030	301
Arizona	2,142	350	0.042	417
Florida	1,392	2059	0.009	87
Top States for CERVANTES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	25,935	132	0.077	766
Texas	11,506	285	0.055	552
Nevada	1,004	292	0.050	502
Arizona	2,142	350	0.042	417
New Mexico	573	426	0.032	315

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of CERVANTES

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 CERVANTES 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 CERVANTES 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 CERVANTES in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	490	0.85
Mixed Race	185	0.32
Native American/Alaskan	150	0.26
Black/African American	69	0.12
White (Hispanic)	54,507	94.49
White (Caucasian)	2,284	3.96

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

Similar names to CERVANTES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CERVANTES.

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.