Avant

5,120 people in the United States were counted with the surname Avant in the 2020 census, making it the 6,387th most common in the country. That is about one person in 58,400.

By the numbers

People: 5,120
Rank: 6,387th
How common: 1 in 58,400
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 50.1%
Black, not Hispanic 40.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like Avant

Avalos

Also a first name

Avant has been given to 642 American babies as a first name since 1971, peaking in 2004. 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.