Ainsworth

8,662 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ainsworth in the 2020 census, making it the 3,972nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 34,500.

By the numbers

People: 8,662
Rank: 3,972nd
How common: 1 in 34,500
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English Ægen + -es and worþ or worð, meaning "Aegen's enclosure".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.5%
Black, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Ainsworth

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882)English novelist
Mary Ainsworth (1913–1999)American-Canadian psychologist & scholar
Lexi Ainsworth (born 1992)American actress
Benjamin Evan Ainsworth (born 2008)British actor
Bob Ainsworth (born 1952)British politician
Gareth Ainsworth (born 1973)English professional footballer

People named Ainsworth 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.