Gagnon

Gagnon is the 1,741st most common surname in the United States, shared by 20,069 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,900.

By the numbers

People: 20,069
Rank: 1,741st
How common: 1 in 14,900
Per 100,000: 6.7

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Borrowed from French Gagnon.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Gagnon

Pierce Gagnon (born 2005)American child actor
Marc Gagnon (born 1975)Canadian short track speed skater
Édouard Gagnon (1918–2007)Catholic cardinal
Marie-Michèle Gagnon (born 1989)Canadian alpine skier
Sylvain Gagnon (born 1970)short track speed skater
Clarence Gagnon (1881–1942)Canadian painter

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

Surnames like Gagnon

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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.