Newsom

Newsom is the 3,292nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,715 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 27,900.

By the numbers

People: 10,715
Rank: 3,292nd
How common: 1 in 27,900
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Variant of Newsome.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.9%
Black, not Hispanic 16.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Newsom

Gavin Newsom (born 1967)40th governor of California since 2019
Joanna Newsom (born 1982)American musician
Jennifer Siebel Newsom (born 1974)American actress and filmmaker

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

Surnames like Newsom

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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.