Hough

At the 2020 census, 14,583 Americans bore the surname Hough — 2,426th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 20,500.

By the numbers

People: 14,583
Rank: 2,426th
How common: 1 in 20,500
Per 100,000: 4.9

Where the name comes from

English surname, from Old English hōh (“spur of land”). Compare Howe, Howes.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.1%
Black, not Hispanic 10.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Hough

Julianne Hough (born 1988)American dancer, choreographer, actress, singer, and songwriter
Derek Hough (born 1985)American dancer
Stephen Hough (born 1961)British-born classical pianist, composer and writer
Larry Hough (born 1944)American rower
John Hough (born 1941)born 1941; British film and television director

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

Surnames like Hough

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.