Belt

Belt is the 4,171st most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,223 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 36,300.

By the numbers

People: 8,223
Rank: 4,171st
How common: 1 in 36,300
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

As an English and north/Low German surname, from the noun belt.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.1%
Black, not Hispanic 12.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Belt

Silvester Belt (born 1997)Lithuanian singer and songwriter

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

Surnames like Belt

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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.