Baird

At the 2020 census, 33,405 Americans bore the surname Baird — 1,034th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,948.

By the numbers

People: 33,405
Rank: 1,034th
How common: 1 in 8,948
Per 100,000: 11.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Baird

John Logie Baird (1888–1946)Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television
Chris Baird (born 1982)Northern Irish association football player
Diora Baird (born 1983)American actress and model
Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823–1887)American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, museum curator, and the 2nd Secretary of the Smithsonian
George Baird (1907–2004)athletics competitor
Tadeusz Baird (1928–1981)Polish composer
Stuart Baird (born 1947)British film director, film producer and film editor
Sammy Baird (1930–2010)Scottish footballer and manager

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

Surnames like Baird

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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.