Garland

At the 2020 census, 24,966 Americans bore the surname Garland — 1,394th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,000.

By the numbers

People: 24,966
Rank: 1,394th
How common: 1 in 12,000
Per 100,000: 8.4

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

English surname, from the noun garland. Also derived from Garland in Devon, from an ancestor of the noun gore (“triangular piece of land”) + land.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.5%
Black, not Hispanic 16.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Garland

Judy Garland (1922–1969)American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian
Alex Garland (born 1970)British writer, scriptwriter and film director
Merrick Garland (born 1952)86th United States Attorney General
Darius Garland (born 2000)American basketball player
Red Garland (1923–1984)American modern jazz pianist
Beverly Garland (1926–2008)American actress
Hamlin Garland (1860–1940)American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer
Conor Garland (born 1996)American ice hockey player

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

Surnames like Garland

Also a first name

Garland has been given to 24,712 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1922. 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.