Evans

343,493 people in the United States were counted with the surname Evans in the 2020 census, making it the 54th most common in the country. That is about one person in 870.

By the numbers

People: 343,493
Rank: 54th
How common: 1 in 870
Per 100,000: 114.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh, from a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.7%
Black, not Hispanic 25.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Evans

Chris Evans (born 1981)American actor
Arthur Evans (1851–1941)British archaeologist and scholar
Martin Evans (born 1941)English developmental biologist
Jonny Evans (born 1988)Northern Irish association football player
Luke Evans (born 1979)Welsh actor and singer
Bill Evans (1929–1980)American jazz pianist
Edith Evans (1888–1976)British actress
Cadel Evans (born 1977)Australian road bicycle racer

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

Surnames like Evans

Evangelista

Also a first name

Evans has been given to 5,488 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2024. 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.