Armstrong

At the 2020 census, 129,826 Americans bore the surname Armstrong — 221st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,302.

By the numbers

People: 129,826
Rank: 221st
How common: 1 in 2,302
Per 100,000: 43.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

. The rural municipality in Manitoba is named after politician James William Armstrong (1860 - 1928).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.7%
Black, not Hispanic 20.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Armstrong

Neil Armstrong (1930–2012)American astronaut and lunar explorer
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971)American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer
Lance Armstrong (born 1971)cyclist from the United States
Billie Joe Armstrong (born 1972)American rock musician
Karen Armstrong (born 1944)author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890–1954)American electrical engineer and inventor
Emily Armstrong (born 1986)American rock musician
Henry Armstrong (1912–1988)American boxer

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

Surnames like Armstrong

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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.