Baylor

At the 2020 census, 5,882 Americans bore the surname Baylor — 5,684th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 50,800.

By the numbers

People: 5,882
Rank: 5,684th
How common: 1 in 50,800
Per 100,000: 2.0

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 46.3%
White, not Hispanic 44.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Baylor

Elgin Baylor (1934–2021)American basketball player, coach, and executive

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

Surnames like Baylor

Also a first name

Baylor has been given to 12,731 American babies as a first name since 1918, peaking in 2024. 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.