Curry

At the 2020 census, 72,444 Americans bore the surname Curry — 443rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,126.

By the numbers

People: 72,444
Rank: 443rd
How common: 1 in 4,126
Per 100,000: 24.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

As an Irish surname, from Ó Comhraidhe (“descendant of Comhraidhe”). Also Anglicized from Ó Corra, see Corr.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 56.7%
Black, not Hispanic 34.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Curry

Stephen Curry (born 1988)American basketball player
Tim Curry (1946–2026)English actor and singer
Haskell Curry (1900–1982)American mathematician and logician
Seth Curry (born 1990)American basketball player
Adrianne Curry (born 1982)American fashion model, actress and television personality
Valorie Curry (born 1986)American actress
Denzel Curry (born 1995)American rapper from Florida
Dell Curry (born 1964)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Curry

Also a first name

Curry has been given to 1,655 American babies as a first name since 1896, peaking in 1970. 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.