Baldwin

77,881 people in the United States were counted with the surname Baldwin in the 2020 census, making it the 411th most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,838.

By the numbers

People: 77,881
Rank: 411th
How common: 1 in 3,838
Per 100,000: 26.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Proto-West Germanic *Balþawini, from Proto-Germanic *Balþawiniz (“bold friend”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.1%
Black, not Hispanic 16.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Baldwin

Alec Baldwin (born 1958)American actor
James Baldwin (1924–1987)American writer
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947)British statesman
Stephen Baldwin (born 1966)American actor and political activist
Adam Baldwin (born 1962)American actor
William Baldwin (born 1963)American actor, producer, and writer
Tammy Baldwin (born 1962)American lawyer and politician
Daniel Baldwin (born 1960)American actor

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

Surnames like Baldwin

Also a first name

Baldwin has been given to 634 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1965. 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.