Pleasant

At the 2020 census, 6,972 Americans bore the surname Pleasant — 4,904th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 42,900.

By the numbers

People: 6,972
Rank: 4,904th
How common: 1 in 42,900
Per 100,000: 2.3

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 54.4%
White, not Hispanic 33.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Pleasant

Mary Ellen Pleasant (1817–1904)African-American entrepreneur

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

Surnames like Pleasant

Also a first name

Pleasant has been given to 702 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1924. 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.