Hall

470,080 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hall in the 2020 census, making it the 33rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 636.

By the numbers

People: 470,080
Rank: 33rd
How common: 1 in 636
Per 100,000: 157.3

Where the name comes from

As an English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish surname: all from the noun hall. The name was likely reinforced by similar sounding words such as Swedish häll.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.8%
Black, not Hispanic 21.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Hall

John L. Hall (born 1934)American physicist
Asaph Hall (1829–1907)American astronomer
Rebecca Hall (born 1982)English actress and filmmaker
Michael C. Hall (born 1971)American actor
Jeffrey C. Hall (born 1945)American geneticist and chronobiologist
Stuart Hall (1932–2014)Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist
G. Stanley Hall (1844–1924)American psychologist and educator
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868–1956)English writer

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

Surnames like Hall

Also a first name

Hall has been given to 877 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1918. 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.