Knuth

At the 2020 census, 3,634 Americans bore the surname Knuth — 8,662nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 82,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,634
Rank: 8,662nd
How common: 1 in 82,300
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Knuth

Donald Knuth (born 1938)American computer scientist and mathematician
Gustav Knuth (1901–1987)actor

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

Surnames like Knuth

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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.