Blank

At the 2020 census, 13,127 Americans bore the surname Blank — 2,681st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 22,800.

By the numbers

People: 13,127
Rank: 2,681st
How common: 1 in 22,800
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

As a Dutch and German surname, from the adjective blank (“shining, pale, white”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Blank

Theodor Blank (1905–1972)German politician
Rebecca Blank (1955–2023)American economist
Les Blank (1935–2013)American documentary filmmaker
Johann Blank (1904–1983)German water polo player
Steve Blank (born 1953)American businessman
Boris Blank (born 1952)Swiss musician and artist

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

Surnames like Blank

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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.