Cathcart

4,428 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cathcart in the 2020 census, making it the 7,260th most common in the country. That is about one person in 67,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,428
Rank: 7,260th
How common: 1 in 67,500
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

From Scottish Gaelic cath (“battle”) + the name of the River Cart.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.1%
Black, not Hispanic 14.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Cathcart

Craig Cathcart (born 1989)Northern Irish association football player
Anna Cathcart (born 2003)Canadian actress
George Cathcart (1794–1854)British Army general

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

Surnames like Cathcart

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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.