Queen

Queen is the 1,948th most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,077 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,500.

By the numbers

People: 18,077
Rank: 1,948th
How common: 1 in 16,500
Per 100,000: 6.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.2%
Black, not Hispanic 17.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Queen

Ivy Queen (born 1972)Puerto Rican rapper, singer and actress
Carol Queen (born 1957)American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist

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

Surnames like Queen

Also a first name

Queen has been given to 16,123 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2018. 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.