Cartwright

Cartwright is the 1,663rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,099 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,200.

By the numbers

People: 21,099
Rank: 1,663rd
How common: 1 in 14,200
Per 100,000: 7.1

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

English surname, from the nouns cart + wright (“maker, crafter”). As a Dutch surname, variant of Courtwright.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.8%
Black, not Hispanic 16.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Cartwright

Nancy Cartwright (born 1957)American actress
Mary Cartwright (1900–1998)British mathematician
Veronica Cartwright (born 1949)British actress
Edmund Cartwright (1743–1823)British inventor
Silvia Cartwright (born 1943)New Zealand viceroy, jurist
Nancy Cartwright (born 1944)American philosopher
Angela Cartwright (born 1952)British actress
Alexander Cartwright (1820–1892)early developer of baseball

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

Surnames like Cartwright

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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.