Perez

680,712 people in the United States were counted with the surname Perez in the 2020 census, making it the 21st most common in the country. That is about one person in 439.

By the numbers

People: 680,712
Rank: 21st
How common: 1 in 439
Per 100,000: 227.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

From Hebrew פֶּרֶץ.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.2%
White, not Hispanic 5.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Perez

Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920)Spanish realist novelist
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (born 1931)Argentine activist, architect and sculptor
Florentino Pérez (born 1947)Spanish businessman, president of Real Madrid
Arturo Pérez-Reverte (born 1951)Spanish writer and journalist
Enzo Nicolás Pérez (born 1986)Argentine association football player
Otto Pérez Molina (born 1950)President of Guatemala
Rosie Perez (born 1964)American actress
Ayoze Pérez (born 1993)Spanish association football player

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

Surnames like Perez

Also a first name

Perez has been given to 591 American babies as a first name since 1954, peaking in 1991. 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.