Drain

Drain is the 9,097th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,451 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 86,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,451
Rank: 9,097th
How common: 1 in 86,600
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

As an Irish surname, from Ó Dreáin (“descendant of Dreán”), probably from dreán (“wren, songbird”) (see Welsh dryw).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 58.3%
Black, not Hispanic 32.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Surnames like Drain

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.