Most common US surnames

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.

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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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