Rayburn

At the 2020 census, 8,067 Americans bore the surname Rayburn — 4,253rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 37,100.

By the numbers

People: 8,067
Rank: 4,253rd
How common: 1 in 37,100
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Scots

Scottish habitational surname, from Raeburn, a place in the Scottish Borders name from Scots rae (“roebuck”) + burn (“stream”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Rayburn

Sam Rayburn (1882–1961)Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1955-1961), American politician

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

Surnames like Rayburn

Also a first name

Rayburn has been given to 2,612 American babies as a first name since 1908, peaking in 1938. 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.