Duncan
129,708 people in the United States were counted with the surname Duncan in the 2020 census, making it the 222nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,304.
By the numbers
- People
- 129,708
- Rank
- 222nd
- How common
- 1 in 2,304
- Per 100,000
- 43.4
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
As a Scottish Gaelic and Irish surname, from Donnchadh, a name composed of donn (“brown”) + cath (“battle”). Also spelled as Donagh and Donaghue, Donahue.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Duncan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Duncan
- Isadora Duncan (1877–1927)American dancer and choreographer
- Michael Clarke Duncan (1957–2012)American actor
- Tim Duncan (born 1976)American basketball player
- Lindsay Duncan (born 1950)Scottish actress
- Arne Duncan (born 1964)American educator
- Alfred Duncan (born 1993)association football player from Ghana
- Daniel Kablan Duncan (born 1943)Ivorian politician
- Sandy Duncan (born 1946)American actress, comedian, dancer and singer
People named Duncan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Duncan
Also a first name
Duncan has been given to 21,230 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1997. 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.