Girl

At the 2020 census, 3,595 Americans bore the surname Girl — 8,756th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 83,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,595
Rank: 8,756th
How common: 1 in 83,100
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 42.6%
Hispanic or Latino 26.5%
Black, not Hispanic 21.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Surnames like Girl

Also a first name

Girl has been given to 610 American babies as a first name since 1985, peaking in 2021. 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.