Abbott
Abbott is the 661st most common surname in the United States, shared by 50,148 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,960.
By the numbers
- People
- 50,148
- Rank
- 661st
- How common
- 1 in 5,960
- Per 100,000
- 16.8
Where the name comes from
Origin an occupational name
An occupational surname for someone employed by an abbot. In the U.S., sometimes an anglicization of Italian Abate, Spanish Abad or German Abt.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Abbott described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Abbott
- Tony Abbott (born 1957)Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015
- Greg Abbott (born 1957)Governor of Texas since 2015
- Bud Abbott (1897–1974)American actor, producer and comedian
- John Abbott (1821–1893)3rd Prime Minister of Canada
- Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926)British theologian and author
- Berenice Abbott (1898–1991)American photographer
- Margaret Abbott (1876–1955)American golfer
- Diane Abbott (born 1953)British MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington
People named Abbott with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Abbott
Also a first name
Abbott has been given to 1,320 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2016. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.