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

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 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.

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.