Banda

At the 2020 census, 14,776 Americans bore the surname Banda — 2,405th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 20,200.

By the numbers

People: 14,776
Rank: 2,405th
How common: 1 in 20,200
Per 100,000: 4.9

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 84.6%
White, not Hispanic 7.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Banda

Hastings Banda (1890–1997)First president of Malawi
Joyce Banda (born 1950)4th President of Malawi
Rupiah Banda (1937–2022)4th president of Zambia (2008–2011); 1937–2022
Barbra Banda (born 2000)Zambian association football player
Memory Banda (born 1996)Malawian children's rights activist
Lameck Banda (born 2001)Zambian football player
Emmanuel Banda (born 1997)Zambian association football player
John Banda (born 1993)Malawian footballer

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

Surnames like Banda

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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.