Manchester

At the 2020 census, 4,879 Americans bore the surname Manchester — 6,649th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 61,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,879
Rank: 6,649th
How common: 1 in 61,300
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

From Old English Mameċeaster, from the original cel-bry name represented by Imperial (maybe from a word related to cel-bry-pro *mamm, in reference to a breast-shaped hill) and Old English ċeaster (“Roman fort”), from Latin castra (“camp”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Manchester

Melissa Manchester (born 1951)American singer and actress
William Manchester (1922–2004)American author, journalist and historian

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

Surnames like Manchester

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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.