Poston

Poston is the 3,576th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,726 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 30,700.

By the numbers

People: 9,726
Rank: 3,576th
How common: 1 in 30,700
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Topographic surname for someone who lived near a poster or back gate, from Old French posterne (“postern”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.3%
Black, not Hispanic 11.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Poston

Tom Poston (1921–2007)American actor

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

Surnames like Poston

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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.