Bancroft

Bancroft is the 6,265th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,228 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 57,200.

By the numbers

People: 5,228
Rank: 6,265th
How common: 1 in 57,200
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English bēan (“bean”) + croft (“enclosed field”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Bancroft

Anne Bancroft (1931–2005)American actress
George Bancroft (1882–1956)American actor
George Bancroft (1800–1891)American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy
Ann Bancroft (born 1955)American explorer
Richard Bancroft (1544–1610)British Archbishop of Canterbury
Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958)Australian artist, administrator and book illustrator
Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918)American historian and ethnologist
Cameron Bancroft (born 1967)Canadian actor

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

Surnames like Bancroft

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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.