Apple

Apple is the 4,999th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,807 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 43,900.

By the numbers

People: 6,807
Rank: 4,999th
How common: 1 in 43,900
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

From apple. As a surname, also an Americanized form of Appel or Apfel.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Apple

Fiona Apple (born 1977)American musician
Zach Apple (born 1997)American swimmer

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

Surnames like Apple

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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.