Garfield

At the 2020 census, 4,119 Americans bore the surname Garfield — 7,741st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 72,600.

By the numbers

People: 4,119
Rank: 7,741st
How common: 1 in 72,600
Per 100,000: 1.4

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.0%
Black, not Hispanic 12.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%

Notable people called Garfield

James A. Garfield (1831–1881)president of the United States in 1881
Lucretia Garfield (1832–1918)First Lady of the United States from 1881 to 1881
John Garfield (1913–1952)American actor
Richard Garfield (born 1963)American game designer
Eugene Garfield (1925–2017)American information and library scientist
Allen Garfield (1939–2020)American actor
James Rudolph Garfield (1865–1950)American lawyer and politician
Leon Garfield (1921–1996)English children's writer

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

Surnames like Garfield

Also a first name

Garfield has been given to 5,566 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1881. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.