Amos

22,595 people in the United States were counted with the surname Amos in the 2020 census, making it the 1,551st most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,200.

By the numbers

People: 22,595
Rank: 1,551st
How common: 1 in 13,200
Per 100,000: 7.6

Where the name comes from

From Biblical Hebrew עמוס (“to carry; a burden”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.7%
Black, not Hispanic 29.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Amos

Tori Amos (born 1963)American singer-songwriter
Ben Amos (born 1990)English footballer
John Amos (1939–2024)American actor
Nijel Amos (born 1994)Botswana middle distance runner
Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos (born 1954)British diplomat
Luke Amos (born 1997)English association football player
Imre Ámos (1907–1944)Hungarian artist
Andrew Amos (1863–1931)English footballer

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

Surnames like Amos

Amoroso

Also a first name

Amos has been given to 36,600 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1922. 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.