Cloud

Cloud is the 2,506th most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,021 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,300.

By the numbers

People: 14,021
Rank: 2,506th
How common: 1 in 21,300
Per 100,000: 4.7

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from Old English clūd (“rock”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.6%
Black, not Hispanic 16.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 6.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Cloud

Angus Cloud (1998–2023)American actor from California
Michael Cloud (born 1975)American politician
Preston Cloud (1912–1991)American earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist

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

Surnames like Cloud

Also a first name

Cloud has been given to 776 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2020. 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.