Race

Race is the 7,038th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,599 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 65,000.

By the numbers

People: 4,599
Rank: 7,038th
How common: 1 in 65,000
Per 100,000: 1.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Surnames like Race

Also a first name

Race has been given to 1,411 American babies as a first name since 1954, peaking in 2002. 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.