Barber

Barber is the 430th most common surname in the United States, shared by 75,161 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,977.

By the numbers

People: 75,161
Rank: 430th
How common: 1 in 3,977
Per 100,000: 25.2

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.6%
Black, not Hispanic 17.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Barber

Samuel Barber (1910–1981)American composer
Kelsey-Lee Barber (born 1991)Australian javelin thrower
Shawnacy Barber (1994–2024)Canadian pole vaulter
Glynis Barber (born 1955)South African actress
Eunice Barber (born 1974)Sierra Leonean athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump
Andrea Barber (born 1976)American actress
Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818–1899)British naturalist, botanist, entomologist, ornithologist, botanical and scientific collector, scientific illustrator, painter and poet
Chris Barber (1930–2021)English trombonist

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

Surnames like Barber

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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.