Packard

At the 2020 census, 9,105 Americans bore the surname Packard — 3,803rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 32,800.

By the numbers

People: 9,105
Rank: 3,803rd
How common: 1 in 32,800
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

Genealogy websites offer three or four hypotheses about the surname; none is confirmed. The ghost town in Kentucky, is named after a certain Amelia Packard.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Packard

David Packard (1912–1996)American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist
Kelly Packard (born 1975)American actress, television personality
Vance Packard (1914–1996)American journalist
Alpheus Spring Packard (1839–1905)American entomologist, palaeontologist
Keith Packard (born 1963)American software programmer

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

Surnames like Packard

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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.