Foote

Foote is the 2,254th most common surname in the United States, shared by 15,702 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 19,000.

By the numbers

People: 15,702
Rank: 2,254th
How common: 1 in 19,000
Per 100,000: 5.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.2%
Black, not Hispanic 11.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Foote

Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888)American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist
Horton Foote (1916–2009)American playwright and screenwriter
Adam Foote (born 1971)Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Shelby Foote (1916–2005)American novelist, historian
Arthur Foote (1853–1937)American composer
Georgia May Foote (born 1991)British actress
Andrew Hull Foote (1806–1863)Union Navy admiral and United States Navy admiral
George William Foote (1850–1915)British secularist and journal editor

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

Surnames like Foote

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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.