Carrier

At the 2020 census, 12,918 Americans bore the surname Carrier — 2,720th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 23,100.

By the numbers

People: 12,918
Rank: 2,720th
How common: 1 in 23,100
Per 100,000: 4.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.8%
Black, not Hispanic 7.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Carrier

Willis Carrier (1876–1950)American inventor
Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756–1794)French revolutionary
Richard Carrier (born 1969)American historian and philosopher
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824–1887)French Sculptor
Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse (1848–1913)French painter
William Carrier (born 1994)Canadian ice hockey player
George F. Carrier (1918–2002)mathematician and Professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus of Harvard University

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

Surnames like Carrier

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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.