Rankin

At the 2020 census, 27,295 Americans bore the surname Rankin — 1,262nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,000.

By the numbers

People: 27,295
Rank: 1,262nd
How common: 1 in 11,000
Per 100,000: 9.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.9%
Black, not Hispanic 15.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Rankin

Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973)American congresswoman for Montana
Ian Rankin (born 1960)Scottish writer
Kevin Rankin (born 1976)American actor
Chris Rankin (born 1983)British actor
Janice Rankin (born 1972)Scottish and British curler
Arthur Rankin Jr. (1924–2014)American director, writer and producer
Richard Rankin (born 1983)Scottish actor
Gayle Rankin (born 1989)Scottish actress

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

Surnames like Rankin

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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.