Harris
At the 2020 census, 603,371 Americans bore the surname Harris — 26th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 495.
By the numbers
- People
- 603,371
- Rank
- 26th
- How common
- 1 in 495
- Per 100,000
- 201.9
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
. From Harry, a male given name derived from a Middle English pronunciation of Old French Henri.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Harris described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Harris
- Kamala Harris (born 1964)Vice President of the United States from 2021 to 2025
- Ed Harris (born 1950)American actor and director
- Neil Patrick Harris (born 1973)American actor
- Sam Harris (born 1967)American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
- Mary Harris Jones (1830–1930)Irish-born American labor and community organizer
- Richard Harris (1930–2002)Irish actor, singer, film director and writer
- Naomie Harris (born 1976)British actress
- Estelle Harris (1928–2022)American actress
People named Harris with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Harris
Also a first name
Harris has been given to 16,661 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. 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.