Auld
Auld is the 11,401st most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,643 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 113,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 2,643
- Rank
- 11,401st
- How common
- 1 in 113,000
- Per 100,000
- 0.88
Where the name comes from
Origin Scots
From Scots auld (“old”). Compare the English surname Old.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Auld described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Auld
- William Auld (1924–2006)Scottish poet, author, translator
- Bertie Auld (1938–2021)Scottish footballer, football manager
- Andy Auld (1900–1977)American soccer player
- Alex Auld (born 1981)Canadian ice hockey player
- Georgie Auld (1919–1990)Canadian jazz musician
People named Auld with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Auld
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.