The ORNELAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	17,278	1909	0.006	64
United States (1880 census)	14	81835	0	0
Change since 1880	+17264	+79926	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	38	31556	0	2
United Kingdom	33	27230	0	1

Top States for ORNELAS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	7,181	578	0.021	212
Texas	3,797	911	0.018	182
Arizona	971	820	0.019	189
Colorado	808	878	0.019	188
Illinois	718	2370	0.006	58
Top States for ORNELAS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Mexico	588	392	0.032	323
California	7,181	578	0.021	212
Arizona	971	820	0.019	189
Colorado	808	878	0.019	188
Texas	3,797	911	0.018	182

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

Classification and Origin of ORNELAS

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 ORNELAS 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 ORNELAS 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 ORNELAS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	85	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	62	0.36
Asian/Pacific	48	0.28
Black/African American	33	0.19
White (Hispanic)	15,911	92.09
White (Caucasian)	1,140	6.6

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

Similar names to ORNELAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORNELAS.

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.