Noble

Noble is the 838th most common surname in the United States, shared by 40,384 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,401.

By the numbers

People: 40,384
Rank: 838th
How common: 1 in 7,401
Per 100,000: 13.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.9%
Black, not Hispanic 13.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Noble

John Noble (born 1948)Australian actor and director
Mark Noble (born 1987)English association football player
Jamie Noble (born 1976)American professional wrestler
Ray Noble (1903–1978)English jazz and big band musician
Chelsea Noble (born 1964)actress
Alan Noble (1885–1952)field hockey player
Cindy Noble (born 1958)American basketball player
Cheryl Noble (born 1956)Canadian female curler

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

Surnames like Noble

Nobles

Also a first name

Noble has been given to 10,261 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1920. See it as a given name.

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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.