Albright

At the 2020 census, 24,202 Americans bore the surname Albright — 1,433rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,400.

By the numbers

People: 24,202
Rank: 1,433rd
How common: 1 in 12,400
Per 100,000: 8.1

Where the name comes from

From Old English Æþelbeorht.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.6%
Black, not Hispanic 5.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Albright

Madeleine Albright (1937–2022)United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001
Lola Albright (1925–2017)American actress and singer
William F. Albright (1891–1971)American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics
Tenley Albright (born 1935)American figure skater and surgeon
Chris Albright (born 1979)American soccer player
Ivan Albright (1897–1983)American artist
Hardie Albright (1903–1975)American actor

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

Surnames like Albright

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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.