Cary

10,955 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cary in the 2020 census, making it the 3,212th most common in the country. That is about one person in 27,300.

By the numbers

People: 10,955
Rank: 3,212th
How common: 1 in 27,300
Per 100,000: 3.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.2%
Black, not Hispanic 11.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Cary

Diana Serra Cary (1918–2020)American child film actress and silent film historian
Joyce Cary (1888–1957)Anglo-Irish writer
Fernand de Langle de Cary (1849–1927)French general
Alice Cary (1820–1871)American writer
Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland (1585–1639)British writer, 1585-1639

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

Surnames like Cary

Also a first name

Cary has been given to 29,827 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1957. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.