Salmon

Salmon is the 2,497th most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,081 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,200.

By the numbers

People: 14,081
Rank: 2,497th
How common: 1 in 21,200
Per 100,000: 4.7

Where the name comes from

named after the fish, salmon.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.8%
Black, not Hispanic 18.8%
Hispanic or Latino 10.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Salmon

Colin Salmon (born 1962)British actor
George Salmon (1819–1904)Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian
André Salmon (1881–1969)French poet
Gaston Salmon (1878–1918)fencer
Benoît Salmon (born 1974)racing cyclist
Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850–1914)American veterinarian
Riley Salmon (born 1976)volleyball player
Matt Salmon (born 1958)Arizona politician

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

Surnames like Salmon

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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.