Proctor

34,084 people in the United States were counted with the surname Proctor in the 2020 census, making it the 1,008th most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,769.

By the numbers

People: 34,084
Rank: 1,008th
How common: 1 in 8,769
Per 100,000: 11.4

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

The soil test was originally developed by Ralph R. Proctor.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.8%
Black, not Hispanic 20.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Proctor

Mary Proctor (1862–1957)British astronomer
Richard Anthony Proctor (1837–1888)English astronomer
Shara Proctor (born 1988)Anguillan long jumper
Henry Proctor (1929–2005)American rower
Sian Proctor (born 1970)African American explorer, scientist, STEM communicator
Redfield Proctor (1831–1908)American politician
Robert N. Proctor (born 1954)American historian

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

Surnames like Proctor

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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.