Explore the official surname data
US Surname Frequency Explorer
How often was your surname recorded in the United States? Search the published 2020 Census table for its frequency and national rank.
- Country
- United States
- Census year
- 2020
- Published surnames
- 156,621
- Eligibility
- 100+ in both 2010 and 2020
How to read these results
The published count is a privacy-protected frequency of a name in the 2020 Census. A smaller rank means a higher frequency; tied counts can share a rank. These are historical national figures, not current population estimates or state, city, or global totals.
Coverage and limitations
- Eligibility requires a name in the 2010 Census Names Table with at least 100 occurrences in both years before disclosure avoidance. Some published 2020 counts fall below 100 after noise is applied.
- Census editing removes punctuation, spaces, and numbers and makes other corrections. The published table uses the 26 English letters. Recorded spellings may therefore differ from your own.
- The table does not include every surname or every person. Its unranked “ALL OTHER NAMES” aggregate is excluded from individual surname searches.
- Frequency does not establish a surname’s linguistic origin, an individual’s ancestry, or a relationship between families. No individual census records are shown.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau — 2020 names data Full source workbook Methodology (PDF)
Dataset released April 2026; source copy retrieved 2026-10-07. The census reference year is 2020.