Disney
3,430 people in the United States were counted with the surname Disney in the 2020 census, making it the 9,143rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 87,100.
By the numbers
- People
- 3,430
- Rank
- 9,143rd
- How common
- 1 in 87,100
- Per 100,000
- 1.2
Where the name comes from
Origin Old French
English surname of Norman origin, from Old French de (“of from”) + Isigny. For the placename, see Isigny-sur-Mer. In modern use, it is also derived from the name of Walt Disney, whose surname has the aforementioned origin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Disney described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Disney
- Walt Disney (1901–1966)American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company
- Roy O. Disney (1893–1971)American businessman and producer, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company
- Roy E. Disney (1930–2009)longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company
- Lillian Disney (1899–1997)American artist and philanthropist
- Diane Disney Miller (1933–2013)daughter of Walt Disney and Lillian Disney
- Melissa Disney (born 1970)American voice actress
People named Disney with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Disney
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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.