Hunt

At the 2020 census, 152,764 Americans bore the surname Hunt — 173rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,957.

By the numbers

People: 152,764
Rank: 173rd
How common: 1 in 1,957
Per 100,000: 51.1

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.9%
Black, not Hispanic 16.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Hunt

Linda Hunt (born 1945)American actress
Ella Hunt (born 1998)English actress

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

Surnames like Hunt

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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.