Champion

Champion is the 2,086th most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,858 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 17,700.

By the numbers

People: 16,858
Rank: 2,086th
How common: 1 in 17,700
Per 100,000: 5.6

Where the name comes from

As an English surname of Norman origin, as well as French, from the noun champion.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.5%
Black, not Hispanic 19.9%
Hispanic or Latino 6.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Champion

Will Champion (born 1978)English drummer
Marge Champion (1919–2020)American dancer and actress
Jack Champion (born 2004)American actor
Émile Champion (1879–1934)French Olympic runner athlete
Malcolm Champion (1883–1939)professional swimmer of New Zealand
Dimitri Champion (born 1983)road bicycle racer
Gower Champion (1921–1980)American actor and dancer
Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty (1768–1815)French cavalry commander during the French Revolutionary Wars

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

Surnames like Champion

Also a first name

Champion has been given to 744 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2019. 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.