Potts

36,403 people in the United States were counted with the surname Potts in the 2020 census, making it the 942nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,211.

By the numbers

People: 36,403
Rank: 942nd
How common: 1 in 8,211
Per 100,000: 12.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.4%
Black, not Hispanic 14.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Potts

Annie Potts (born 1952)American actress
Paul Potts (born 1970)English tenor
Alec Potts (born 1996)Australian archer
Dan Potts (born 1994)English association football player
Andrew-Lee Potts (born 1979)English actor
Sarah-Jane Potts (born 1976)British actress
Edward Potts (1881–1944)gymnast
Reginald Potts (1892–1968)gymnast

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

Surnames like Potts

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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.