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How many people in America carried the surname at the 2020 census, counted from everyone who answered.
Source U.S. Census Bureau (spreadsheet), as of 1 April 2020 · people with this surname
Frequently Occurring Last Names in the 2020 Census (top 1,000 table, published 2026-04-14). Ranked as published; one row withheld — DOE, which the Bureau’s own methodology brief calls "likely inflated" by unremoved JOHN DOE / JANE DOE placeholder entries.
Every round of Rank 100 drops a list like this one and asks each player for one entry on it. Get as close to #100 on the list as you can, without going over. #94 is Alvarez — nobody at your table is saying Alvarez.
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The full top 100
Jump to #81| Rank | Entry | people with this surname |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Smith | 2,369,644 |
| #2 | Johnson | 1,858,234 |
| #3 | Williams | 1,561,395 |
| #4 | Brown | 1,386,083 |
| #5 | Jones | 1,383,250 |
| #6 | Garcia | 1,149,510 |
| #7 | Miller | 1,129,186 |
| #8 | Rodriguez | 1,085,838 |
| #9 | Davis | 1,074,448 |
| #10 | Martinez | 1,039,848 |
| #11 | Hernandez | 1,013,895 |
| #12 | Lopez | 878,958 |
| #13 | Gonzalez | 828,405 |
| #14 | Wilson | 777,275 |
| #15 | Anderson | 756,560 |
| #16 | Thomas | 734,345 |
| #17 | Taylor | 723,758 |
| #18 | Moore | 696,384 |
| #19 | Lee | 695,657 |
| #20 | Jackson | 686,937 |
| #21 | Perez | 680,712 |
| #22 | Martin | 678,691 |
| #23 | Thompson | 640,099 |
| #24 | White | 636,798 |
| #25 | Sanchez | 607,848 |
| #26 | Harris | 603,371 |
| #27 | Ramirez | 544,204 |
| #28 | Clark | 539,661 |
| #29 | Nguyen | 531,404 |
| #30 | Lewis | 515,459 |
| #31 | Robinson | 510,138 |
| #32 | Walker | 504,833 |
| #33 | Hall | 470,080 |
| #34 | Young | 468,920 |
| #35 | Allen | 465,583 |
| #36 | King | 453,539 |
| #37 | Wright | 443,210 |
| #38 | Torres | 435,998 |
| #39 | Flores | 426,965 |
| #40 | Scott | 421,499 |
| #41 | Hill | 419,076 |
| #42 | Green | 415,664 |
| #43 | Adams | 413,470 |
| #44 | Nelson | 410,801 |
| #45 | Baker | 401,148 |
| #46 | Rivera | 398,449 |
| #47 | Mitchell | 372,104 |
| #48 | Campbell | 370,555 |
| #49 | Gomez | 368,213 |
| #50 | Carter | 364,355 |
| #51 | Roberts | 362,049 |
| #52 | Diaz | 356,910 |
| #53 | Phillips | 343,656 |
| #54 | Evans | 343,493 |
| #55 | Cruz | 342,580 |
| #56 | Reyes | 335,828 |
| #57 | Turner | 333,512 |
| #58 | Parker | 323,880 |
| #59 | Edwards | 320,927 |
| #60 | Collins | 317,373 |
| #61 | Stewart | 311,429 |
| #62 | Morales | 310,866 |
| #63 | Patel | 309,327 |
| #64 | Morris | 307,446 |
| #65 | Murphy | 298,047 |
| #66 | Cook | 290,386 |
| #67 | Rogers | 289,242 |
| #68 | Ortiz | 288,277 |
| #69 | Morgan | 276,366 |
| #70 | Gutierrez | 275,216 |
| #71 | Kim | 274,068 |
| #72 | Cooper | 271,453 |
| #73 | Bailey | 269,092 |
| #74 | Ramos | 268,640 |
| #75 | Reed | 268,584 |
| #76 | Bell | 267,025 |
| #77 | Peterson | 265,150 |
| #78 | Ward | 255,767 |
| #79 | Kelly | 255,516 |
| #80 | Howard | 253,434 |
| #81 | Cox | 249,872 |
| #82 | Richardson | 249,840 |
| #83 | Chavez | 244,201 |
| #84 | Brooks | 244,116 |
| #85 | James | 243,502 |
| #86 | Watson | 242,956 |
| #87 | Mendoza | 242,772 |
| #88 | Gray | 241,208 |
| #89 | Bennett | 239,397 |
| #90 | Wood | 238,948 |
| #91 | Ruiz | 237,286 |
| #92 | Chen | 233,798 |
| #93 | Castillo | 231,347 |
| #94 | Alvarez | 229,446 |
| #95 | Hughes | 226,912 |
| #96 | Price | 225,734 |
| #97 | Jimenez | 225,722 |
| #98 | Ross | 224,952 |
| #99 | Long | 223,485 |
| #100 | Tran | 223,440 |
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