Estes

At the 2020 census, 34,729 Americans bore the surname Estes — 989th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,607.

By the numbers

People: 34,729
Rank: 989th
How common: 1 in 8,607
Per 100,000: 11.6

Where the name comes from

Equivalent to east's, from east + 's.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.1%
Black, not Hispanic 6.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Estes

Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born 1945)American psychoanalyst and writer
Richard Estes (born 1932)American painter
Rob Estes (born 1963)American actor
Yusuf Estes (born 1944)American Islamic preacher
Will Estes (born 1978)American actor
Sleepy John Estes (1899–1977)American blues guitarist, songwriter and singer
Yevgeniya Estes (born 1975)volleyball player
Ellen Estes (born 1978)American water polo player and coach

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

Surnames like Estes

Also a first name

Estes has been given to 601 American babies as a first name since 1887, peaking in 1916. 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.