{"id":186645,"date":"2024-09-12T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=186645"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:14:32","slug":"how-well-known-is-latinx-among-u-s-hispanics-and-who-uses-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2024\/09\/12\/how-well-known-is-latinx-among-u-s-hispanics-and-who-uses-it\/","title":{"rendered":"1. How well-known is \u2018Latinx\u2019 among U.S. Hispanics, and who uses it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Alternatives to the pan-ethnic labels Hispanic and Latino emerge every so often.[5.numoffset=”5″ Other alternative pan-ethnic labels<\/a> for people who trace their heritage to Latin America and Spain include Latin@ and Latinu.] But none have been widely adopted or embraced by the population they are meant to describe. And few Hispanic adults have even heard of some of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLatinx\u201d is a recent pan-ethnic label that emerged to describe the U.S. population that traces its roots to Latin America and Spain. Awareness of it among U.S. Hispanics has grown, but use remains low. This chapter explores patterns of Latinx awareness and use among the U.S Hispanic population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awareness of Latinx among U.S. Hispanics grows<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nearly half (47%) of Latino adults in 2023 say they have heard of the pan-ethnic term Latinx, about double the share who were aware of it in 2019<\/a>. And this rise in awareness is widespread across many demographic subgroups of U.S. Latinos. Yet there are large differences among some of these subgroups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By age<\/h4>\n\n\n\n