Gore

23,940 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gore in the 2020 census, making it the 1,452nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,500.

By the numbers

People: 23,940
Rank: 1,452nd
How common: 1 in 12,500
Per 100,000: 8.0

Where the name comes from

From any of various places named Gore, from gore (“a triangular piece of land where roads meet”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.2%
Black, not Hispanic 21.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Gore

Al Gore (born 1948)Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001
Martin Gore (born 1961)English songwriter, musician, singer, record producer, remixer, and DJ; founding member of Depeche Mode
Lesley Gore (1946–2015)American singer
Tipper Gore (born 1948)Second Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001
Arthur Gore (1868–1928)British tennis player
Spencer Gore (1850–1906)British tennis player
Albert Gore Sr. (1907–1998)American politician from Tennessee
Thomas Gore (1870–1949)American politician

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

Surnames like Gore

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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.