Angus

Angus is the 7,585th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,220 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 70,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,220
Rank: 7,585th
How common: 1 in 70,800
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Aonghas, perhaps literally "one choice".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.8%
Black, not Hispanic 13.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Angus

John Angus (1938–2021)English footballer
Rita Angus (1908–1970)New Zealand artist

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

Surnames like Angus

Also a first name

Angus has been given to 6,751 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2006. 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.