Raleigh

Raleigh is the 8,383rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,782 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 79,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,782
Rank: 8,383rd
How common: 1 in 79,000
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

From Old English rā, rāha (“roe deer”) + lēah (“woodland, clearing”). Equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.7%
Black, not Hispanic 6.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Raleigh

Walter Raleigh (1554–1618)English statesman, soldier and writer

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

Surnames like Raleigh

Also a first name

Raleigh has been given to 12,336 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. 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.