Cunningham

Cunningham is the 229th most common surname in the United States, shared by 128,869 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,319.

By the numbers

People: 128,869
Rank: 229th
How common: 1 in 2,319
Per 100,000: 43.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.6%
Black, not Hispanic 20.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Cunningham

Michael Cunningham (born 1952)American novelist and screenwriter
Liam Cunningham (born 1961)Irish actor
Alexander Cunningham (1814–1893)British army engineer and amateur archaeologist
Kenny Cunningham (born 1985)Costa Rican association football player
Walter Cunningham (1932–2023)American astronaut
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963)Royal Navy officer
Merce Cunningham (1919–2009)American dancer and choreographer
Laurie Cunningham (1956–1989)English footballer

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

Surnames like Cunningham

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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.