Blackburn

37,556 people in the United States were counted with the surname Blackburn in the 2020 census, making it the 915th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,959.

By the numbers

People: 37,556
Rank: 915th
How common: 1 in 7,959
Per 100,000: 12.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English blæc (“dark”) + burna (“stream”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.3%
Black, not Hispanic 7.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948)Australian-American biological researcher
Marsha Blackburn (born 1952)American businesswoman and politician
Tyler Blackburn (born 1986)American actor, singer and model
Simon Blackburn (born 1944)English academic philosopher
Luke Pryor Blackburn (1816–1887)American physician and governor of Kentucky
Jemima Blackburn (1823–1909)British artist
Rolando Blackburn (born 1990)Panamanian footballer
Helen Blackburn (1842–1903)Women's rights campaigner, editor, writer

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

Surnames like Blackburn

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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.