Harold

At the 2020 census, 5,704 Americans bore the surname Harold — 5,842nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 52,400.

By the numbers

People: 5,704
Rank: 5,842nd
How common: 1 in 52,400
Per 100,000: 1.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.3%
Black, not Hispanic 23.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Harold

Gale Harold (born 1969)actor
Dave Harold (born 1966)English snooker player

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

Surnames like Harold

Also a first name

Harold has been given to 554,280 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1924. 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.