Born

6,659 people in the United States were counted with the surname Born in the 2020 census, making it the 5,103rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 44,900.

By the numbers

People: 6,659
Rank: 5,103rd
How common: 1 in 44,900
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin English

A variant of Bourne.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Born

Max Born (1882–1970)German-Jewish physicist and mathematician
Elina Born (born 1994)Estonian singer
Ignaz von Born (1742–1791)Czech mineralogist and nobleman
Adolf Born (1930–2016)Czech painter
Nicolas Born (1937–1979)German writer

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

Surnames like Born

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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.