Ehrlich

At the 2020 census, 5,681 Americans bore the surname Ehrlich — 5,861st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 52,600.

By the numbers

People: 5,681
Rank: 5,861st
How common: 1 in 52,600
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin German, Yiddish

from ehrlich (“honest, honorable”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915)Jewish-German physician and scientist
Paul R. Ehrlich (1932–2026)American biologist and environmentalist
Eugen Ehrlich (1862–1922)Austrian lawyer
Bob Ehrlich (born 1957)Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007
Max Ehrlich (1892–1944)German actor, director, screenwriter

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

Surnames like Ehrlich

Ehrhardt

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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.