Johns

45,892 people in the United States were counted with the surname Johns in the 2020 census, making it the 735th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,513.

By the numbers

People: 45,892
Rank: 735th
How common: 1 in 6,513
Per 100,000: 15.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Variant of John with genitival or excrescent or a variant of Jones.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.1%
Black, not Hispanic 13.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Johns

Glynis Johns (1923–2024)British actress
Jasper Johns (born 1930)American painter and sculptor
Helen Johns (1914–2014)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder
Daniel Johns (born 1979)Australian musician
Glyn Johns (born 1942)English musician, recording engineer and record producer
Bibi Johns (born 1929)Swedish singer and actress
Mervyn Johns (1899–1992)Welsh actor
Adrian Johns (born 1951)Royal Navy admiral

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

Surnames like Johns

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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.