Ferguson

139,234 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ferguson in the 2020 census, making it the 198th most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,147.

By the numbers

People: 139,234
Rank: 198th
How common: 1 in 2,147
Per 100,000: 46.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From translation of Gaelic MacFhearguis, "son of Fergus".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.7%
Black, not Hispanic 18.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Ferguson

Sarah Ferguson (born 1959)British writer, charity patron, public speaker, film producer and television personality, and former Duchess of York
Rebecca Ferguson (born 1983)Swedish actress
Adam Ferguson (1723–1816)Scottish philosopher and historian;
Niall Ferguson (born 1964)British historian
Craig Ferguson (born 1962)British actor
Keith Ferguson (born 1972)American voice actor
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (born 1975)American actor
Maynard Ferguson (1928–2006)Canadian jazz musician and bandleader

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

Surnames like Ferguson

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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.