Eagle

Eagle is the 4,516th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,644 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 39,100.

By the numbers

People: 7,644
Rank: 4,516th
How common: 1 in 39,100
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

As an English surname, from the noun eagle.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 9.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.8%
Black, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Eagle

Eddie the Eagle (born 1963)British ski jumper
Angela Eagle (born 1961)British politician, Labour MP for Wallasey
Joshua Eagle (born 1973)Australian tennis player
Harry Eagle (1905–1992)American pathologist

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

Surnames like Eagle

Eagan

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.