Ingram

Ingram is the 496th most common surname in the United States, shared by 66,120 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,521.

By the numbers

People: 66,120
Rank: 496th
How common: 1 in 4,521
Per 100,000: 22.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From a Middle English given name, from Proto-Germanic *Ingwaz (“a Germanic god”) + *hrabnaz (“raven”). The places are named after persons with the surname.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 58.8%
Black, not Hispanic 32.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Ingram

Brandon Ingram (born 1997)American basketball player
James Ingram (1952–2019)American singer-songwriter and record producer
Rex Ingram (1892–1950)Irish film director
Moses Ingram (born 1994)American actress
Charles Ingram (born 1963)British fraudster
Rex Ingram (1903–1969)American actor (1895/1903–1969)
Kerry Ingram (born 1999)English actress
Luther Ingram (1937–2007)American R&B and soul singer-songwriter

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

Surnames like Ingram

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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.