Bird

Bird is the 1,015th most common surname in the United States, shared by 33,829 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,836.

By the numbers

People: 33,829
Rank: 1,015th
How common: 1 in 8,836
Per 100,000: 11.3

Where the name comes from

As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun bird.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Black, not Hispanic 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%

Notable people called Bird

Larry Bird (born 1956)American basketball player and coach
Brad Bird (born 1957)American film director, animator, screenwriter and producer
Isabella Bird (1831–1904)British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist
Sue Bird (born 1980)American basketball player
Lester Bird (1938–2021)Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
Horus Bird (2001 BC–2001 BC)sovereign
Henry Bird (1830–1908)English chess player
Sam Bird (born 1987)racing driver for Virgin Racing in Formula E and AF Corse in the World Endurance Championship

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

Surnames like Bird

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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.