The Cuesta surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,014 people carried this name — #13,787 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 133,300 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 277 people named Cuesta.
128 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 30 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
80 people named Cuesta live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Cuesta.
- Cuccia 1,853 · U.S. census
- Cucco 340 · U.S. census
- Cuellar 17,217 · U.S. census
- Cuello 1,290 · U.S. census
- Cuenca 2,251 · U.S. census
- Cuenin 106 · U.S. census
- Cuevas 32,015 · U.S. census
- Cuff 2,862 · U.S. census
- Cuffel 100 · U.S. census
- Cugno 236 · U.S. census
- Cully 1,359 · U.S. census
- Cunat 115 · U.S. census
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