Fielding

At the 2020 census, 5,913 Americans bore the surname Fielding — 5,651st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 50,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,913
Rank: 5,651st
How common: 1 in 50,500
Per 100,000: 2.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.9%
Black, not Hispanic 7.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Fielding

Henry Fielding (1707–1754)English novelist and dramatist
Helen Fielding (born 1958)English novelist and screenwriter
Frank Fielding (born 1988)English association football player
Noel Fielding (born 1973)British comedian and actor
Fenella Fielding (1927–2018)English actress
Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)British writer
Shawne Fielding (born 1969)American model
Joy Fielding (born 1945)Canadian actor and writer

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

Surnames like Fielding

Also a first name

Fielding has been given to 602 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 2022. 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.