Rawls

At the 2020 census, 11,333 Americans bore the surname Rawls — 3,095th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 26,400.

By the numbers

People: 11,333
Rank: 3,095th
How common: 1 in 26,400
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Patronymic from a medieval form of the personal name Ralph.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 50.3%
Black, not Hispanic 41.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Rawls

John Rawls (1921–2002)American political philosopher
Lou Rawls (1933–2006)American singer
Katherine Rawls (1917–1982)American swimmer, diver, Olympic silver medalist, aviator

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

Surnames like Rawls

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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.