Vargas (surname)

Vargas is a Spanish surname of Castilian origin. The founder of the house was Ivan de Vargas who fought as a knight in the reconquest of Madrid, in 1083, at service of Alfonso VI of León and Castile.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 22.2% of all known bearers of the surname Vargas were residents of Mexico (frequency 1:260), 15.6% of Colombia (1:142), 7.5% of Peru (1:196), 6.7% of the United States (1:2,502), 6.4% of Bolivia (1:77), 6.2% of Venezuela (1:225), 4.5% of Chile (1:183), 4.3% of Costa Rica (1:51), 4.2% of Brazil (1:2,249), 3.9% of Argentina (1:511), 3.2% of the Philippines (1:1,457), 2.7% of the Dominican Republic (1:182), 2.5% of Spain (1:863), 2.5% of Ecuador (1:295), 1.5% of Guatemala (1:498) and 1.2% of Nicaragua (1:237).

In Spain, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:863) in the following autonomous communities:

In Costa Rica, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:51) in the following provinces:[1]

Acting

Finance

Music and arts

Politics

Sciences
  • Virginia Vargas (born 1945), Peruvian sociologist and women's movement leader

Sports

Crime

See also
  • Vargas (disambiguation)

References
  1. Vargas surname distribution
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