Roberts

362,049 people in the United States were counted with the surname Roberts in the 2020 census, making it the 51st most common in the country. That is about one person in 826.

By the numbers

People: 362,049
Rank: 51st
How common: 1 in 826
Per 100,000: 121.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.2%
Black, not Hispanic 16.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Roberts

Julia Roberts (born 1967)American actress
Emma Roberts (born 1991)American actress, singer, model and producer
John Roberts (born 1955)Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2005
Eric Roberts (born 1956)American actor
Nora Roberts (born 1950)American romance writer
Tanya Roberts (1949–2021)American actress
Richard Roberts (born 1943)English biochemist and molecular biologist
Doris Roberts (1925–2016)American actress

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

Surnames like Roberts

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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.