Cates

At the 2020 census, 17,441 Americans bore the surname Cates — 2,024th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,100.

By the numbers

People: 17,441
Rank: 2,024th
How common: 1 in 17,100
Per 100,000: 5.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.9%
Black, not Hispanic 7.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Cates

Phoebe Cates (born 1963)American actress, model, and entrepreneur
Darlene Cates (1947–2017)American actress
Gilbert Cates (1934–2011)American film director and television producer
Michael Cates (born 1961)British physicist
Challen Cates (born 1969)American actress

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

Surnames like Cates

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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.