Diamond

20,714 people in the United States were counted with the surname Diamond in the 2020 census, making it the 1,695th most common in the country. That is about one person in 14,400.

By the numbers

People: 20,714
Rank: 1,695th
How common: 1 in 14,400
Per 100,000: 6.9

Where the name comes from

Origin German, Irish

As a German surname, Anglicized form of Diamant.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.0%
Black, not Hispanic 8.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Diamond

Jared Diamond (born 1937)American scientist, historian, and author
Neil Diamond (born 1941)American recording artist; singer-songwriter
Peter Diamond (born 1940)Nobel prize in economics winner
Douglas Diamond (born 1953)American economist and professor of finance
Skin Diamond (born 1987)American pornographic actress
Lou Diamond Phillips (born 1962)American actor
Reed Diamond (born 1967)American actor
Mya Diamond (born 1981)Hungarian pornographic actress

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

Surnames like Diamond

Also a first name

Diamond has been given to 36,297 American babies as a first name since 1897, peaking in 1999. 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.