Ansari

Ansari is the 5,545th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,058 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 49,300.

By the numbers

People: 6,058
Rank: 5,545th
How common: 1 in 49,300
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

From Arabic أَنْصَارِيّ, from أَنْصَار (“helpers, supporters”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 67.7%
White, not Hispanic 18.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 7.0%
Black, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Ansari

Anousheh Ansari (born 1966)Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur
Aziz Ansari (born 1983)American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and director
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari (1880–1936)former president of the Indian National Congress
Yassamin Ansari (born 1992)American politician
Bushra Ansari (born 1956)Pakistani actress

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

Surnames like Ansari

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.