Calhoun

At the 2020 census, 41,347 Americans bore the surname Calhoun — 814th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,229.

By the numbers

People: 41,347
Rank: 814th
How common: 1 in 7,229
Per 100,000: 13.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish, Scottish

Common anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Colquhoun.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.4%
Black, not Hispanic 32.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Calhoun

John C. Calhoun (1782–1850)vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832
Lee Calhoun (1933–1989)athletics competitor
Rory Calhoun (1922–1999)American actor
John B. Calhoun (1917–1995)American ethologist and behavioral researcher
Alice Calhoun (1900–1966)American silent film actress
Will Calhoun (born 1964)American musician

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

Surnames like Calhoun

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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.