Ashmore

5,904 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ashmore in the 2020 census, making it the 5,661st most common in the country. That is about one person in 50,600.

By the numbers

People: 5,904
Rank: 5,661st
How common: 1 in 50,600
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English æsċ (“ash-tree”) + mere (“pond, pool, lake”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.7%
Black, not Hispanic 7.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Ashmore

Shawn Ashmore (born 1979)Canadian actor
Aaron Ashmore (born 1979)Canadian actor
Gerry Ashmore (1936–2021)British racing driver

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

Surnames like Ashmore

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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.