Raven

At the 2020 census, 3,052 Americans bore the surname Raven — 10,065th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 97,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,052
Rank: 10,065th
How common: 1 in 97,900
Per 100,000: 1.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.5%
Black, not Hispanic 22.6%
Hispanic or Latino 5.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Raven

Marion Raven (born 1984)Norwegian singer
Raven (born 1964)American professional wrestler, actor and podcaster
Peter H. Raven (1936–2026)American botanist

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

Also a first name

Raven has been given to 48,253 American babies as a first name since 1921, peaking in 1993. 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.