Find out how popular the last name Conejo is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Conejo.

Conejo, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Conejo surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Conejo in America

Conejo is the 18043rd most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Conejo surname appeared 1,546 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Conejo.

We can also compare 2010 data for Conejo to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Conejo

The surname Conejo originated in Spain during the medieval period. It is derived from the Spanish word "conejo," which means "rabbit." The name likely referred to someone who either raised or hunted rabbits, or perhaps lived in an area where rabbits were abundant.

In medieval Spanish records, the name appears with various spellings such as Coneio, Coneyo, and Coneio. One of the earliest known references to the name is found in the 13th-century Fuero de Plasencia, a legal code from the region of Extremadura.

By the 15th century, the Conejo surname had spread to other parts of Spain, including Andalusia and Castile. In 1492, a certain Juan Conejo was recorded as one of the soldiers who participated in the conquest of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the name Conejo can be found in various documents from Spanish colonies in the Americas. For instance, Hernando Conejo was a settler in New Spain (present-day Mexico) in the early 1600s, while Juan Conejo was a landowner in Peru in the late 1600s.

One of the most notable individuals with the Conejo surname was Diego Conejo de Narváez (c. 1470-1528), a Spanish conquistador who led several expeditions in the Caribbean and Florida. He is particularly known for his disastrous attempt to conquer the indigenous people of Florida in 1528, which ended in the near-complete annihilation of his forces.

Another prominent figure was Francisco Conejo (1623-1693), a Spanish painter from Seville who specialized in religious art and was active during the Baroque period. Some of his works can still be seen in churches and museums in Seville and other parts of Andalusia.

In more recent history, Juan Conejo (1924-2014) was a Spanish writer and journalist from Andalusia, known for his novels and essays on Andalusian culture and history. He was awarded several literary prizes throughout his career.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Conejo

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Conejo.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Conejo was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Conejo has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Conejo was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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