Arnold

Arnold is the 214th most common surname in the United States, shared by 132,160 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,262.

By the numbers

People: 132,160
Rank: 214th
How common: 1 in 2,262
Per 100,000: 44.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.3%
Black, not Hispanic 13.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Arnold

Frances Arnold (born 1956)Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineer
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)British poet and cultural critic
Vladimir Arnold (1937–2010)Russian mathematician who studied integrable systems and differential equations
Graham Arnold (born 1963)Australian association football player and coach
Benedict Arnold (1741–1801)army officer who betrayed America to the British during the Revolutionary War
Henry H. Arnold (1886–1950)American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force
Edwin Arnold (1832–1904)English poet and journalist
Maximilian Arnold (born 1994)German association football player

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

Surnames like Arnold

Also a first name

Arnold has been given to 104,396 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1924. 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.