Gurung

14,369 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gurung in the 2020 census, making it the 2,454th most common in the country. That is about one person in 20,800.

By the numbers

People: 14,369
Rank: 2,454th
How common: 1 in 20,800
Per 100,000: 4.8

Where the name comes from

From the ne surname, from the name of the Gurung people of Nepal, गुरुङ, an exonym itself possibly borrowed from bo.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 97.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.2%
White, not Hispanic 0.9%
Hispanic or Latino 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Gurung

Prabal Gurung (born 1974)American fashion designer

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

Surnames like Gurung

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.