Jennings

At the 2020 census, 86,271 Americans bore the surname Jennings — 356th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,465.

By the numbers

People: 86,271
Rank: 356th
How common: 1 in 3,465
Per 100,000: 28.9

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 Jennings described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 68.0%
Black, not Hispanic 22.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Jennings

Pat Jennings (born 1945)Northern Irish footballer
Waylon Jennings (1937–2002)American country musician
Brandon Jennings (born 1989)American basketball player
Peter Jennings (1938–2005)Canadian-American broadcast journalist
Kerri Walsh Jennings (born 1978)American professional beach volleyball player
Alex Jennings (born 1957)British actor
Jazz Jennings (born 2000)American transgender Internet personality
Gary Jennings (1928–1999)American novelist

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

Surnames like Jennings

Also a first name

Jennings has been given to 5,192 American babies as a first name since 1892, peaking in 1926. 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.