Atwater

Atwater is the 7,822nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,065 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 73,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,065
Rank: 7,822nd
How common: 1 in 73,500
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

From a toponymic surname for someone who lived by a river or lake.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 58.7%
Black, not Hispanic 32.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Atwater

Tanya Atwater (born 1942)American geophysicist and marine geologist
Lee Atwater (1951–1991)American political consultant and strategist

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

Surnames like Atwater

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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.