Cruz

Cruz is the 55th most common surname in the United States, shared by 342,580 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 872.

By the numbers

People: 342,580
Rank: 55th
How common: 1 in 872
Per 100,000: 114.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Ibero-Romance

From roa (Portuguese Cruz and Spanish Cruz).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cruz described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 86.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.8%
White, not Hispanic 5.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Cruz

Penélope Cruz (born 1974)Spanish actress
Ted Cruz (born 1970)American politician
Celia Cruz (1925–2003)Cuban singer
Taio Cruz (born 1980)British singer and songwriter
Nicolás de la Cruz (born 1997)Uruguayan association football player
Manuel Marrero Cruz (born 1963)Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba
Andrés de Santa Cruz (1792–1865)Supreme protector of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation
Milton Cruz (born 1957)Brazilian association football player

People named Cruz with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cruz

Also a first name

Cruz has been given to 35,024 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2013. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.