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

Helguera, 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 Helguera surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Helguera in America

Helguera is the 84136th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Helguera surname appeared 223 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Helguera.

We can also compare 2010 data for Helguera 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 Helguera

The surname HELGUERA originated in Spain during the medieval period. It is believed to have derived from the Basque language and is thought to be a place name referring to a locality or settlement near a hill or mountain.

The earliest known recorded reference to this surname dates back to the 14th century in the regions of Navarre and the Basque Country in northern Spain. It is found in historical documents and records from this era, though the exact spelling varied slightly over time.

One of the earliest documented individuals with this surname was Pedro de Helguera, a nobleman and landowner who lived in the late 15th century in the town of Vitoria-Gasteiz, which was then part of the Kingdom of Navarre.

In the 16th century, the name appears in various municipal records and tax rolls from the Basque provinces, suggesting that families bearing this name were well-established in the region by that time.

During the Age of Exploration, a few individuals with the surname HELGUERA joined expeditions and voyages to the Americas. One such explorer was Juan de Helguera, who accompanied the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés on his conquest of Mexico in the 1520s.

Over the centuries, as people migrated from the Basque Country and other parts of Spain, the surname HELGUERA spread to other regions of Spain, as well as to Spanish colonies in the Americas and elsewhere. Notable individuals bearing this surname include the 17th-century Spanish poet and playwright Antonio de Helguera y Alvarado, and the 19th-century Mexican military officer and politician Ignacio Helguera.

In more recent times, the Spanish painter and sculptor Eduardo Helguera (born in 1904) and the Mexican writer and academic Sergio Helguera Castillo (1927-2008) have been among the more prominent figures sharing this distinctive surname of Basque origin.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Helguera

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

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 Helguera 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 Helguera 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 Helguera was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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