The Ahumada surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,937 people carried this name — #6,829 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 59,900 people counted. That is up 34% from 3,679 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 15,464 people named Ahumada live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 3,784
Córdoba 3,127
San Juan 1,747
Mendoza 1,682
Tucumán 1,088
Catamarca 1,046
Santa Fe 524
City of Buenos Aires 478

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

58 people named Ahumada live in Switzerland.

They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Vaud 33
Zurich 15
Geneva 6
Zug 4

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In the Nordic population registers

36 people named Ahumada is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 36

Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).

In print

Ahumada in American newspapers,
1916.

Newspaper page from Daily Kennebec Journal carrying the name Ahumada
Daily Kennebec Journal 1916-06-22
Newspaper page from New Iberia Enterprise And Independent Observer carrying the name Ahumada
New Iberia Enterprise And Independent Observer 1916-06-24
Newspaper page from Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt carrying the name Ahumada
Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt 1916-06-22

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 15,291 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Ahumada,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Agustín de Ahumada
    Agustín de Ahumada 1700–1760 · military personnel
  • Miguel Ahumada
    Miguel Ahumada 1844–1917 · military personnel
  • Luis Alberto Ahumada
    Luis Alberto Ahumada 1899–1969 · lawyer
  • Raul Ahumada Guerrero d. 1973 · factory worker
  • Herminio Ahumada 1899–1983 · lawyer
  • Gerardo Ahumada Pacheco 1913–2009 · lawyer

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Ahumada,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States162 records

162 records of the Ahumada name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 138
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 14
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 7
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 1
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Luciano V. Ahumada

    Born 1923 in Texas. Enlisted 1942 at San Antonio; apprentice from Bexar County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1987, buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Lusio Castanoz Ahumada

    Born 1930; from Tulare, California. U.S. Marine Corps; killed in action 1953 in Korea.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Henry V. Ahumada

    U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. Born 1944, died 1981; buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 162 records for Ahumada in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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