Buchanan

Buchanan is the 511th most common surname in the United States, shared by 64,348 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,645.

By the numbers

People: 64,348
Rank: 511th
How common: 1 in 4,645
Per 100,000: 21.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.0%
Black, not Hispanic 17.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Buchanan

James Buchanan (1791–1868)president of the United States from 1857 to 1861
James M. Buchanan (1919–2013)American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics
Pat Buchanan (born 1938)American politician and commentator
Tanner Buchanan (born 1998)American actor
Tajon Buchanan (born 1999)Canadian soccer player
George Buchanan (1506–1582)Scottish historian and humanist scholar
Roy Buchanan (1939–1988)American blues musician
Kadeisha Buchanan (born 1995)Canadian soccer player

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

Surnames like Buchanan

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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.