Fender

5,786 people in the United States were counted with the surname Fender in the 2020 census, making it the 5,770th most common in the country. That is about one person in 51,700.

By the numbers

People: 5,786
Rank: 5,770th
How common: 1 in 51,700
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From German, a variant of Fenrich or Fendler.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 2.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Fender

Leo Fender (1909–1991)American inventor and founder of the Fender company
Sam Fender (born 1994)English singer-songwriter
Freddy Fender (1937–2006)American Tejano singer

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

Surnames like Fender

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.