Cairns

At the 2020 census, 4,945 Americans bore the surname Cairns — 6,575th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 60,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,945
Rank: 6,575th
How common: 1 in 60,400
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Scots, Irish

As a Scottish surname, from Scots cairn, describing a manmade heap or mound of stones.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Cairns

Alun Cairns (born 1970)Welsh politician and MP
Leah Cairns (born 1974)Canadian actress
David Cairns (1966–2011)Scottish Labour Party politician
Chris Cairns (born 1970)New Zealand cricketer

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

Surnames like Cairns

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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.