List

List is the 8,387th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,781 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 79,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,781
Rank: 8,387th
How common: 1 in 79,100
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

As a Dutch and German surname, from the noun list (“wisdom, ingenuity”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called List

Benjamin List (born 1968)German chemist
Friedrich List (1789–1846)German economist
Wilhelm List (1880–1971)German field marshal
Peyton List (born 1986)American actress
John List (1925–2008)American mass murderer
Liesbeth List (1941–2020)Dutch singer
Robert List (born 1936)American attorney and politician

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

Surnames like List

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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.