Barclay

Barclay is the 3,136th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,206 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 26,700.

By the numbers

People: 11,206
Rank: 3,136th
How common: 1 in 26,700
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Variant of Berkeley.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.2%
Black, not Hispanic 14.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Barclay

Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761–1818)Baltic German general
Steve Barclay (born 1972)British politician
Edwin Barclay (1882–1955)Liberian politician
Arthur Barclay (1854–1938)President of Liberia
John Barclay (1582–1621)Scottish writer
Paris Barclay (born 1956)American television director and producer
Joan Barclay (1914–2002)American actress
William Barclay (1907–1978)British author, theologian, radio and TV presenter and Church of Scotland minister

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

Surnames like Barclay

Also a first name

Barclay has been given to 978 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 1970. 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.