Fine

At the 2020 census, 11,321 Americans bore the surname Fine — 3,101st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 26,400.

By the numbers

People: 11,321
Rank: 3,101st
How common: 1 in 26,400
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from the adjective fine.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.3%
Black, not Hispanic 2.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Fine

Reuben Fine (1914–1993)American chess player and psychologist
Larry Fine (1902–1975)American comedian and actor, one of the Three Stooges
Jeanna Fine (1964–2025)American pornographic actress
Anne Fine (born 1947)British writer
Cordelia Fine (born 1975)Canadian-born British psychologist and writer
Randy Fine (born 1974)American politician
John Van Antwerp Fine, Jr. (1939–2026)American Balkan and Byzantine historian

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

Surnames like Fine

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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.