Liston

At the 2020 census, 4,312 Americans bore the surname Liston — 7,453rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 69,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,312
Rank: 7,453rd
How common: 1 in 69,300
Per 100,000: 1.4

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%

Notable people called Liston

Sonny Liston (1930–1970)American boxer (c. 1930–1970)
Robert Liston (1794–1847)Scottish surgeon
Melba Liston (1926–1999)American jazz trombonist, musical arranger, and composer

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

Surnames like Liston

Also a first name

Liston has been given to 930 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 1923. 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.