Corbett

At the 2020 census, 25,154 Americans bore the surname Corbett — 1,385th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,900.

By the numbers

People: 25,154
Rank: 1,385th
How common: 1 in 11,900
Per 100,000: 8.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Anglo-Norman

From Anglo-Norman corbet (“little crow; carrion crow”), probably a nickname for someone with dark hair or complexion.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.2%
Black, not Hispanic 13.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Corbett

Jim Corbett (1875–1955)British hunter, tracker, naturalist and author
John Corbett (born 1961)American actor and country music singer
James John Corbett (1866–1933)American boxer
Tom Corbett (born 1949)Governor of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2015
Ronnie Corbett (1930–2016)Scottish stand-up comedian, actor, writer, broadcaster, and comedian
Glenn Corbett (1933–1993)American actor
Boston Corbett (1832–1894)Union Army sergeant
Marius Corbett (born 1975)South African javelin thrower

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

Surnames like Corbett

Also a first name

Corbett has been given to 2,433 American babies as a first name since 1892, peaking in 1971. 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.