Douglass

At the 2020 census, 15,066 Americans bore the surname Douglass — 2,360th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,800.

By the numbers

People: 15,066
Rank: 2,360th
How common: 1 in 19,800
Per 100,000: 5.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.2%
Black, not Hispanic 11.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Douglass

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
Dorothea Douglass (1878–1960)English tennis and badminton player
Kate Douglass (born 2001)American swimmer
Andrew Ellicott Douglass (1867–1962)American astronomer and dendrochronologist
Jack Douglass (born 1988)American Internet personality

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

Surnames like Douglass

Also a first name

Douglass has been given to 5,795 American babies as a first name since 1883, 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.