Bacon

Bacon is the 1,195th most common surname in the United States, shared by 28,803 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,400.

By the numbers

People: 28,803
Rank: 1,195th
How common: 1 in 10,400
Per 100,000: 9.6

Where the name comes from

As an English and French surname, from the noun bacon.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.6%
Black, not Hispanic 17.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Bacon

Francis Bacon (1561–1626)English philosopher and statesman
Roger Bacon (1220–1292)English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)
Kevin Bacon (born 1958)American actor
Francis Bacon (1909–1992)Irish-born British figurative painter
Lloyd Bacon (1889–1955)actor, director
Robert Bacon (1860–1919)American diplomat, secretary of state, ambassador to France, etc.
Sosie Bacon (born 1992)American actress
Charles Bacon (1885–1968)American athlete

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

Surnames like Bacon

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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.