Bates

91,057 people in the United States were counted with the surname Bates in the 2020 census, making it the 339th most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,283.

By the numbers

People: 91,057
Rank: 339th
How common: 1 in 3,283
Per 100,000: 30.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

A patronymic surname that is derived from Batte, a medieval form of the male given name Bartholomew + -s (denoting "son of") hence meaning "son of Bartholomew".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.2%
Black, not Hispanic 18.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Bates

Kathy Bates (born 1948)American film actress and director
Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892)English naturalist and explorer
Alan Bates (1934–2003)English actor
Paddy Roy Bates (1921–2012)Founder of the Principality of Sealand
Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929)American poet and songwriter
Tyler Bates (born 1965)American musician, music producer, film score composer
Laura Bates (born 1986)British writer
Barbara Bates (1925–1969)American actress

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

Surnames like Bates

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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.