Hobbs

Hobbs is the 730th most common surname in the United States, shared by 46,281 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,458.

By the numbers

People: 46,281
Rank: 730th
How common: 1 in 6,458
Per 100,000: 15.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert + the patronymic suffix.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.3%
Black, not Hispanic 15.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Hobbs

Katie Hobbs (born 1969)Governor of Arizona since 2023
Jack Hobbs (born 1988)English association football player
David Hobbs (born 1939)British former racing driver, racing commentator
Jack Hobbs (1882–1963)English cricketer
Bill Hobbs (1949–2020)American rower
Chelsea Hobbs (born 1985)Canadian actress
Aleia Hobbs (born 1996)American sprinter
Franklin Hobbs (born 1947)American rower

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

Surnames like Hobbs

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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.