Powers

At the 2020 census, 88,252 Americans bore the surname Powers — 347th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,387.

By the numbers

People: 88,252
Rank: 347th
How common: 1 in 3,387
Per 100,000: 29.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.3%
Black, not Hispanic 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Powers

Francis Gary Powers (1929–1977)American pilot shot down flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union
Richard Powers (born 1957)American novelist
Tim Powers (born 1952)American science fiction writer and actor
Stefanie Powers (born 1942)American actress
Ross Powers (born 1979)snowboarder
Mala Powers (1931–2007)American actress
Ed Powers (born 1954)American pornographic director, producer and actor
Bridget Powers (born 1980)American actress, pornographic film performer, and musician

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

Surnames like Powers

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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.