Rand

At the 2020 census, 9,738 Americans bore the surname Rand — 3,572nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 30,700.

By the numbers

People: 9,738
Rank: 3,572nd
How common: 1 in 30,700
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

from English rand; compare English rand.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.9%
Black, not Hispanic 12.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Rand

Ayn Rand (1905–1982)Russian-born American writer and public philosopher
Mary Rand (1940–2026)British track and field athlete and Olympic champion
Paul Rand (1914–1996)American graphic designer
Austin L. Rand (1905–1982)Canadian zoologist
John Rand (1871–1940)American actor

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

Surnames like Rand

Also a first name

Rand has been given to 3,101 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 1952. 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.