Buckner

23,041 people in the United States were counted with the surname Buckner in the 2020 census, making it the 1,512th most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,000.

By the numbers

People: 23,041
Rank: 1,512th
How common: 1 in 13,000
Per 100,000: 7.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 64.6%
Black, not Hispanic 25.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Buckner

Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823–1914)Confederate Army general
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886–1945)American lieutenant general during World War II
Quinn Buckner (born 1954)American basketball player and coach
Susan Buckner (1952–2024)American actress
Bill Buckner (1949–2019)American baseball player
Jack Buckner (born 1961)athletics competitor
Milt Buckner (1915–1977)American jazz pianist and organist

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

Surnames like Buckner

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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.