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:
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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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 |
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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 | 26,425 | 10 |
Thomas | 14 | 710,696 | 263 |
Wang | 438 | 67,570 | 25 |
Webb | 137 | 163,481 | 25 |
Woodley | 4,880 | 6,603 | 2 |
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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
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