The Orozco surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 65,904 people carried this name — #512 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 4,480 people counted. That is up 46% from 45,289 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Orozco surname
From Spanish Orozco, a habitational surname from Basque.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Orozco» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 12,133 people named Orozco 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 Mendoza.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
109 people named Orozco 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/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 79 people named Orozco.
34 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Aveyron.
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 the Nordic population registers
21 people named Orozco is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
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
Orozco in American newspapers,
1911–1915.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 27,434 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Orozco,
with a public archive behind them.
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Juan de Villaseñor y Orozco 1500–1576 · conquistador -
Francisco de Orozco 1605–1668 · military personnel -
Mathilda d'Orozco 1796–1863 · writer -
Gabriel Orozco y Arascot 1855–1927 · military personnel -
Maximiano Márquez Orozco 1876–1950 · military personnel
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 148 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Orozco.
- Orlandi 1,072 · U.S. census
- Orlandini 330 · U.S. census
- Orlando 12,586 · U.S. census
- Orlowski 3,208 · U.S. census
- Oros 2,512 · U.S. census
- Orosco 8,313 · U.S. census
- Ors 126 · U.S. census
- Orsatti 214 · U.S. census
- Orsetti 100 · U.S. census
- Orsi 1,100 · U.S. census
- Orsini 3,055 · U.S. census
- Orso 1,142 · U.S. census
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