Arnett

At the 2020 census, 15,594 Americans bore the surname Arnett — 2,276th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,200.

By the numbers

People: 15,594
Rank: 2,276th
How common: 1 in 19,200
Per 100,000: 5.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.9%
Black, not Hispanic 8.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Arnett

Will Arnett (born 1970)Canadian and American actor and comedian
Peter Arnett (1934–2025)American journalist

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

Surnames like Arnett

Also a first name

Arnett has been given to 1,373 American babies as a first name since 1893, peaking in 1951. 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.