Charleston

Charleston is the 9,793rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,157 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 94,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,157
Rank: 9,793rd
How common: 1 in 94,700
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

. The places are named after various men named "Charles"; see definitions below.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 59.9%
White, not Hispanic 28.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Surnames like Charleston

Also a first name

Charleston has been given to 3,813 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2015. 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.