Galbraith

At the 2020 census, 8,664 Americans bore the surname Galbraith — 3,970th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 34,500.

By the numbers

People: 8,664
Rank: 3,970th
How common: 1 in 34,500
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Scottish ethnic surname from Scottish Gaelic gall (“stranger, foreigner”) + Breathnach (“Briton”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006)Canadian-American economist and diplomat
Declan Galbraith (born 1991)English singer, actor
Patrick Galbraith (born 1967)US tennis player
Ethan Galbraith (born 2001)Northern Irish footballer
Barry Galbraith (1919–1983)American guitarist
Patrick Galbraith (born 1986)Danish ice hockey player
James K. Galbraith (born 1952)American economist

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

Surnames like Galbraith

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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.