Last

10,013 people in the United States were counted with the surname Last in the 2020 census, making it the 3,477th most common in the country. That is about one person in 29,900.

By the numbers

People: 10,013
Rank: 3,477th
How common: 1 in 29,900
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

English metonymic occupational surname for a cobbler, from last (“a tool for shaping shoes”). Compare Laster.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 55.9%
Hispanic or Latino 23.9%
Black, not Hispanic 10.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 7.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Last

James Last (1929–2015)German musician
Annie Last (born 1990)Cross-country mountain biker

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

Surnames like Last

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.