Agnew

9,607 people in the United States were counted with the surname Agnew in the 2020 census, making it the 3,612th most common in the country. That is about one person in 31,100.

By the numbers

People: 9,607
Rank: 3,612th
How common: 1 in 31,100
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Scottish habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Agneaux, in Normandy.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Agnew described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 65.6%
Black, not Hispanic 26.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Agnew

Spiro Agnew (1918–1996)vice president of the United States from 1969 to 1973
Harold Agnew (1921–2013)American physicist
Chloë Agnew (born 1989)Irish musician and singer
Judy Agnew (1921–2012)Second Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1973
Stuart Agnew (born 1949)British politician
John A. Agnew (born 1949)American British-born geographer

People named Agnew with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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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.