Bristol

At the 2020 census, 7,561 Americans bore the surname Bristol — 4,552nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 39,500.

By the numbers

People: 7,561
Rank: 4,552nd
How common: 1 in 39,500
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

from Old English Bryċġstōw, from with additional final /l/ due to hypercorrection from l-vocalizing accents. See bridge and stow for more.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.1%
Black, not Hispanic 18.1%
Hispanic or Latino 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Surnames like Bristol

Also a first name

Bristol has been given to 11,616 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2019. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.