Finch

29,401 people in the United States were counted with the surname Finch in the 2020 census, making it the 1,179th most common in the country. That is about one person in 10,200.

By the numbers

People: 29,401
Rank: 1,179th
How common: 1 in 10,200
Per 100,000: 9.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.5%
Black, not Hispanic 14.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Finch

Peter Finch (1916–1977)British-Australian actor
Aaron Finch (born 1986)Australian cricketer
Jennie Finch (born 1980)American softball player
Flora Finch (1867–1940)British-born film actress
Jon Finch (1942–2012)British actor (1941/1942–2012)
Chris Finch (born 1969)American basketball player-coach
Catrin Finch (born 1980)Welsh harpist
Jennifer Finch (1966–2026)American musician, designer and photographer

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

Surnames like Finch

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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.