Orange

At the 2020 census, 4,143 Americans bore the surname Orange — 7,704th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 72,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,143
Rank: 7,704th
How common: 1 in 72,100
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Some senses from French Orange, from Old French Orenge (compare Occitan Aurenja), from Vulgar Latin *Aurinica, from Latin Arausio, from cel-gau *arausi (“temple of the head, cheek”). In British and Irish contexts, usually with particular reference to William III of England (Willem Hendrik van Oranje), the Dutch Protestant husband of Queen Mary II who ended Stuart rule in Britain and Ireland.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 45.8%
Black, not Hispanic 45.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Orange

Jason Orange (born 1970)British pop singer

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

Surnames like Orange

Orantes

Also a first name

Orange has been given to 616 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1920. 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.