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

Jeminez, 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 Jeminez surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Jeminez in America

Jeminez is the 127494th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Jeminez surname appeared 134 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 Jeminez.

We can also compare 2010 data for Jeminez 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 Jeminez

The surname Jeminez has its origins in Spain, originating in the late medieval period. It is thought to derive from the Spanish place name Jeménez, which itself comes from the Arabic personal name "Jamal" meaning "beautiful" or "camel driver".

The name first appears in records from the 13th century in the region of Andalusia, southern Spain, which had been under Moorish rule for several centuries. As the Reconquista progressed and the Christian kingdoms gradually retook control of the Iberian Peninsula, many Mozarabs (Iberian Christians living under Moorish rule) adopted names derived from Arabic roots.

One of the earliest recorded bearers of the name was Pedro Jeminez, a knight who fought alongside King Ferdinand III of Castile in the conquest of Cordoba in 1236. The surname also appeared in legal documents from Seville in the late 1200s, spelled variously as Xemenez, Ximenez, and Gimenez.

Over time, different branches of the Jeminez family migrated to other parts of Spain and the New World colonies. Gonzalo Ximénez de Quesada, born around 1495, was a Spanish conquistador who led the expedition that founded the city of Bogotá, Colombia in 1538. In the arts, the painter Juan Nuñez de Jeminez (1615-1666) produced religious works in his native Seville.

Other notable bearers include the 18th century Spanish naval officer and explorer Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la Rua y Jeminez (1750-1820), and the Cuban writer and independence fighter Francisco Jeminez y Muñoz (1847-1900). The surname has since spread across the Spanish-speaking world, with variants like Ximenes, Himenez, and Gimenez appearing in different regions.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Jeminez

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

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

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