Monroe
53,483 people in the United States were counted with the surname Monroe in the 2020 census, making it the 618th most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,589.
By the numbers
- People
- 53,483
- Rank
- 618th
- How common
- 1 in 5,589
- Per 100,000
- 17.9
Where the name comes from
Origin Scottish Gaelic
From Old English mann (“human being, person, man”) + Roe, a river in Northern Ireland, meaning "man from the River Roe".
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Monroe described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Monroe
- Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962)American actress and model
- James Monroe (1758–1831)president of the United States from 1817 to 1825
- Elizabeth Monroe (1768–1830)First Lady of the United States from 1817 to 1825
- Maika Monroe (born 1993)American actress
- Bill Monroe (1911–1996)American bluegrass musician, songwriter
- Greg Monroe (born 1990)American basketball player
- Earl Monroe (born 1944)American basketball player
- Monroe (born 2008)French-American singer
People named Monroe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Monroe
Also a first name
Monroe has been given to 24,360 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. 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.