Horst

Horst is the 3,580th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,709 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 30,800.

By the numbers

People: 9,709
Rank: 3,580th
How common: 1 in 30,800
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from German and Dutch Horst.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 95.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Horst

Jørn Lier Horst (born 1970)Norwegian writer
Piet van der Horst (1903–1983)Dutch racing cyclist
Horst P. Horst (1906–1999)German-American photographer
Robert van der Horst (born 1984)Dutch field hockey player
Alexander Horst (born 1982)Austrian beach volleyball player
Thijs ter Horst (born 1991)Dutch volleyball player

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

Surnames like Horst

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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.