England
At the 2020 census, 28,381 Americans bore the surname England — 1,220th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 10,500.
By the numbers
- People
- 28,381
- Rank
- 1,220th
- How common
- 1 in 10,500
- Per 100,000
- 9.5
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
From Middle English Engelond, England, from Old English Engla land, from genitive of Engle (“the Angles”) + land (“land”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname England described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called England
- Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603)Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603
- Henry VIII of England (1491–1547)King of England from 1509 to 1547
- Charles I of England (1600–1649)King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1625 to 1649
- Charles II of England (1630–1685)King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
- Edward VI of England (1537–1553)king of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553
- James II of England (1633–1701)King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1685 to 1688
- Henry V of England (1386–1422)King of England from 1413 to 1422
- Henry II of England (1133–1189)King of England from 1154 to 1189
People named England with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like England
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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.