Hare

Hare is the 2,323rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 15,310 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 19,500.

By the numbers

People: 15,310
Rank: 2,323rd
How common: 1 in 19,500
Per 100,000: 5.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

As an Irish surname, from ó hír (“descendant of Ír”), a personal name related to Old Irish sír (“long-lasting”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.6%
Black, not Hispanic 9.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Hare

R. M. Hare (1919–2002)British moral philosopher
David Hare (born 1947)British playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director
Truxtun Hare (1878–1956)American football player, track and field athlete
Robert D. Hare (born 1934)Canadian psychologist
Thomas Hare (1806–1891)British political reformer

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

Surnames like Hare

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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.