March

10,104 people in the United States were counted with the surname March in the 2020 census, making it the 3,450th most common in the country. That is about one person in 29,600.

By the numbers

People: 10,104
Rank: 3,450th
How common: 1 in 29,600
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

From Middle English March, Marche, borrowed from Anglo-Norman marche, from Old French marz, from Latin mensis Mārtius, from earlier Mavors.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.3%
Black, not Hispanic 16.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called March

Fredric March (1897–1975)American actor
Ausiàs March (1400–1459)Valencian poet and knight
Solly March (born 1994)English association footballer
Jane March (born 1973)English actress
Peggy March (born 1948)American singer
Stephanie March (born 1974)American actress
Werner March (1894–1976)German architect
Aleida March (born 1936)Che Guevara's wife

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

Surnames like March

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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.