Buchan

Buchan is the 11,611th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,587 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 116,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,587
Rank: 11,611th
How common: 1 in 116,000
Per 100,000: 0.87

Where the name comes from

Possibly from xpi.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Buchan

John Buchan (1875–1940)Scottish author and politician
Charlie Buchan (1891–1960)English footballer and sporting journalist
Martin Buchan (born 1949)Scottish footballer
Andrew Buchan (born 1979)British actor

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

Surnames like Buchan

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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.