Masters

At the 2020 census, 22,542 Americans bore the surname Masters — 1,556th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,300.

By the numbers

People: 22,542
Rank: 1,556th
How common: 1 in 13,300
Per 100,000: 7.5

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Black, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Masters

Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950)American writer
William H. Masters (1915–2001)American gynecologist
Oksana Masters (born 1989)Ukrainian-born American paralympic rower and cross-country skier
Maxwell Tylden Masters (1833–1907)British botanist
Ben Masters (1947–2023)American actor

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

Surnames like Masters

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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.