Metcalfe

At the 2020 census, 4,761 Americans bore the surname Metcalfe — 6,809th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 62,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,761
Rank: 6,809th
How common: 1 in 62,800
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Variant of Metcalf.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.6%
Black, not Hispanic 7.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Metcalfe

Robert Metcalfe (born 1946)American electrical engineer
Jesse Metcalfe (born 1978)American actor
Connor Metcalfe (born 1999)Australian soccer player
Ralph Metcalfe (1910–1978)American athlete and politician
Jack Metcalfe (1912–1994)Australian long jumper, triple jumper and javelin thrower
Adrian Metcalfe (1942–2021)British sprinter
Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe (1785–1846)British colonial governor

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

Surnames like Metcalfe

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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.