Feather

2,538 people in the United States were counted with the surname Feather in the 2020 census, making it the 11,799th most common in the country. That is about one person in 118,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,538
Rank: 11,799th
How common: 1 in 118,000
Per 100,000: 0.85

Where the name comes from

As an Americanized German surname, from Feder.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 9.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Feather

Leonard Feather (1914–1994)British-American jazz musician and jazz writer

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

Surnames like Feather

Also a first name

Feather has been given to 554 American babies as a first name since 1974, peaking in 1977. 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.