The census bureau analyzed the names of 269,762,087 people (96% of population because of errors in optical character recognition of scanned census forms and other abnormalities in the data). There were 151,671 names which occurred 100 or more times. The most common names (those with 0.2% of the populatiion or more) were:
rnk name count per 100K
1 SMITH 2,376,206 881
2 JOHNSON 1,857,160 688
3 WILLIAMS 1,534,042 569
4 BROWN 1,380,145 512
5 JONES 1,362,755 505
6 MILLER 1,127,803 418
7 DAVIS 1,072,335 398
8 GARCIA 858,289 318
9 RODRIGUEZ 804,240 298
10 WILSON 783,051 290
11 MARTINEZ 775,072 287
12 ANDERSON 762,394 283
rnk name count per 100K
13 TAYLOR 720,370 267
14 THOMAS 710,696 263
15 HERNANDEZ 706,372 262
16 MOORE 698,671 259
17 MARTIN 672,711 249
18 JACKSON 666,125 247
19 THOMPSON 644,368 239
20 WHITE 639,515 237
21 LOPEZ 621,536 230
22 LEE 605,860 225
23 GONZALEZ 597,718 222
24 HARRIS 593,542 220
25 CLARK 548,369 203
per 100K is the frequency per 100,000 people.
Count - Number of people with this name in the U.S.

Source: Genealogy - Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000

It reported % by race (White, Black, Asian/Pacific islander, American indian/Alaskan native, 2 or more, Hispanic)


Names in this, California Settlers, site

Note: Some of the names are for more recent generations with no pages here for security.
Name Rnk Count per
100K
Chien 9,257 3,239 1
Davis 7 1,072,335 398
Finley 854 36,874 14
Fowler 267 102,620 38
Gard NA see Guard
Gibson 119 184,420 68
Gilmore 661 47,050 17
Guard 16,838 1,560 1
Halloway 22,854 1,046 0.4
Hellar NA see Heller
Heller 1,274 25,371 9
Keehner 41,924 488 0.2
King 35 438,986 162
Lee 22 605,860 225
Lewelling 42,056 486 0.2
Lewellen 9,636 3,096 1
Lewellyn 16,988 1,542 2
MacDonald 685 45,782 17
Name Rnk Count per
100K
Massengill 8,951 3,359 1
Maxwell 458 65,779 24
McBride 495 60,874 23
McCormack 1,936 17,074 6
McKenzie 544 55,084 20
Morgan 62 276,400 102
Mostler NA
Ramsey 373 76,625 28
Roberts 45 366,215 136
Rockwell 2,737 12,099 4
Sikes * 3,257 10,068 4
Soule 5,204 6,168 2
Sprague 1,466 22,283 8
Sykes * 1,214 26,42510
Thomas 14 710,696 263
Wang † 438 67,570 25
Webb 137 163,481 25
Woodley 4,880 6,603 2
NA - Not in top 50,000 names
* Sikes (10,068) + Sykes (26,425) combined occurred 36,493 times which would rank #867 (14 per 100 K)

† Ethnicity for people with the name Lee is 40% white, 38% Asian/Pacific Islander, 17% black, 5% other
Wang is 94% Asian/Pacific Islander and Chien is 93% Asian/Pacific Islander

Most common in this web site by ethnicity:

Name ethnicity people
Davis (65% white) 694,105
Thomas (56% white) 394,632
King (73% white) 319,601
Roberts (80% white) 291,360
Lee (38% asian) 229,205
Morgan (78% white) 216,891
Gibson (75% white) 137,524
Webb (78% white) 127,088
Fowler (83% white) 85,525
Wang (94% asian) 63,834
Ramsey (80% white) 60,950
McCormick (89% white) 55,833
Maxwell (76% white) 49,856
McBride (77% white) 46,576
MacDonald (95% white) 43,514
McKenzie (69% white) 37,834
Gilmore (68% white) 32,086
Heller (95% white) 24,171
Sprague (95% white) 21,184
Sykes (56% white) 14,917
Sikes (93% white) 9,340
Links:
  Name Frequency at the census bureau
NY Times Article
Genealogy - Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000 at census.gov
Return to Califorina Settlers.

last updated 10 Dec 2007