Flack

5,686 people in the United States were counted with the surname Flack in the 2020 census, making it the 5,855th most common in the country. That is about one person in 52,600.

By the numbers

People: 5,686
Rank: 5,855th
How common: 1 in 52,600
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

From Middle English flack (“sod, turf”); see flag (sense 4).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.5%
Black, not Hispanic 9.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Flack

Roberta Flack (1937–2025)American singer
Edwin Flack (1873–1935)Australian middle distance runner and tennis player
Caroline Flack (1979–2020)English radio and television presenter
Audrey Flack (1931–2024)American artist

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

Surnames like Flack

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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.