Hughes
226,912 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hughes in the 2020 census, making it the 96th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,317.
By the numbers
- People
- 226,912
- Rank
- 96th
- How common
- 1 in 1,317
- Per 100,000
- 75.9
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Hughes described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Hughes
- Langston Hughes (1901–1967)American writer and social activist
- Howard Hughes (1905–1976)American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer
- Ted Hughes (1930–1998)English poet and children's writer
- Mark Hughes (born 1963)Welsh football manager
- Billy Hughes (1862–1952)Australian politician (1862–1952), 7th Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923
- Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948)American jurist; Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941
- John Hughes (1950–2009)American filmmaker
- Chris Hughes (born 1983)American entrepreneur
People named Hughes with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Hughes
Also a first name
Hughes has been given to 919 American babies as a first name since 1896, peaking in 1916. 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.