The Vasquez surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 212,781 people carried this name — #113 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,390 people counted. That is up 33% from 159,989 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Vasquez surname
A patronymical surname from Old Galician-Portuguese.
From Old Galician-Portuguese Vaasquez, from an earlier Velasco + -ez. Velasco and Belasco are Romance forms of a name in Paleo-Hispanic (probably Iberian [Term?] or Basque [Term?]).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Vásquez» (Spanish), 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 29,657 people named Vasquez 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 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
469 people named Vasquez live in Switzerland.
They live in 16 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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 409 people named Vasquez.
196 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 46 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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
153 people named Vasquez 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
Vasquez in American newspapers,
1875–1928.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 25,814 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Vasquez,
with a public archive behind them.
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Antonio Vasquez 1924–1996 · singer -
Juan F. Vasquez 1948– · judge -
Paul Vasquez 1962–2020 · firefighter -
James Vasquez 1972– · screenwriter -
Jhonen Vasquez 1974– · composer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 106 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Vasquez.
- Vary 376 · U.S. census
- Vas 445 · U.S. census
- Vasco 735 · U.S. census
- Vasconi 217 · U.S. census
- Vasic 210 · U.S. census
- Vasile 1,110 · U.S. census
- Vassallo 3,205 · U.S. census
- Vassel 512 · U.S. census
- Vasseur 809 · U.S. census
- Vassor 269 · U.S. census
- Vastine 484 · U.S. census
- Vater 602 · U.S. census
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