Blood

At the 2020 census, 5,629 Americans bore the surname Blood — 5,903rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 53,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,629
Rank: 5,903rd
How common: 1 in 53,100
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

When the gang was formed, the term blood, from blood brother, was common street slang, used in the 1960s by young Black and Hispanic men and returning veterans from the Vietnam War to refer to friends.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Blood

Nick Blood (born 1982)British actor
Weyes Blood (born 1988)American musician
Archer Blood (1923–2004)American diplomat
Thomas Blood (1618–1680)Irish-born Colonel best known for attempting to steal the Crown Jewels

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

Surnames like Blood

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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.