Bain

At the 2020 census, 16,721 Americans bore the surname Bain — 2,102nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,900.

By the numbers

People: 16,721
Rank: 2,102nd
How common: 1 in 17,900
Per 100,000: 5.6

Where the name comes from

As a Scottish surname, from Scottish Gaelic bàn (“white, fair”), also found in McBain.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.3%
Black, not Hispanic 8.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Bain

Conrad Bain (1923–2013)Canadian-American actor, personality, entertainer, and activist
Barbara Bain (born 1931)American actress
Alexander Bain (1818–1903)Scottish philosopher and educationalist
Jimmy Bain (1947–2016)Scottish bassist
Scott Bain (born 1991)Scottish association football player
Alexander Bain (1810–1877)British clockmaker
John Bain (1984–2018)British game commentator
Andretti Bain (born 1985)Bahamian sprinter

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

Surnames like Bain

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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.