Archibald
At the 2020 census, 8,535 Americans bore the surname Archibald — 4,040th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 35,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 8,535
- Rank
- 4,040th
- How common
- 1 in 35,000
- Per 100,000
- 2.9
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
From Anglo-Norman Arcebald, Arcenbald or Ercenbald, from Old French Archaunbault, from Proto-West Germanic *Erknabalþ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Archibald described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Archibald
- Nate Archibald (born 1948)American basketball player
- Robert Archibald (1980–2020)Scottish basketball player
- Steve Archibald (born 1956)Scottish association football player and manager
- Katie Archibald (born 1994)racing cyclist
- Edward Archibald (1884–1965)Canadian athlete
- Jeff Archibald (born 1952)field hockey player
- Edith Archibald (1854–1936)Canadian suffragist and writer
- Adams George Archibald (1814–1892)Canadian politician
People named Archibald with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Archibald
Also a first name
Archibald has been given to 3,985 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. 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.