English

English is the 757th most common surname in the United States, shared by 44,777 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,675.

By the numbers

People: 44,777
Rank: 757th
How common: 1 in 6,675
Per 100,000: 15.0

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Englisch, English, Inglis, from Old English Englisċ (“of the Angles; English”), from Engle (“the Angles”), a Germanic tribe ; equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.9%
Black, not Hispanic 21.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called English

Bill English (born 1961)Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2016 to 2017
Alex English (born 1954)American basketball player/coach
Amber English (born 1989)American sport shooter
Bill English (born 1980)American actor
CariDee English (born 1985)American model
Aiden English (born 1987)American professional wrestler
Sarah English (born 1955)field hockey player
Mark English (born 1993)Irish middle-distance runner

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

Surnames like English

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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.