Richmond

Richmond is the 970th most common surname in the United States, shared by 35,493 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,421.

By the numbers

People: 35,493
Rank: 970th
How common: 1 in 8,421
Per 100,000: 11.9

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Rychemund, from a name cognate to French Richemont. Equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.0%
Black, not Hispanic 22.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Richmond

Mitch Richmond (born 1965)American basketball player
Charles Wallace Richmond (1868–1932)American ornithologist
Cedric Richmond (born 1973)American politician
Branscombe Richmond (born 1955)American actor
Deon Richmond (born 1978)American actor
Mary Richmond (1861–1928)American social worker
Kenneth Richmond (1926–2006)Olympic wrestler
Geraldine L. Richmond (born 1953)American chemist and physicist

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

Surnames like Richmond

Also a first name

Richmond has been given to 4,305 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. 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.