Sanders
221,987 people in the United States were counted with the surname Sanders in the 2020 census, making it the 102nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,346.
By the numbers
- People
- 221,987
- Rank
- 102nd
- How common
- 1 in 1,346
- Per 100,000
- 74.3
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
From the Middle English Sander, a shortened form of Alexander + suffix -s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Sanders described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Sanders
- Bernie Sanders (born 1941)United States Senator from Vermont
- Colonel Sanders (1890–1980)American entrepreneur (1890-1980) who founded KFC
- George Sanders (1906–1972)British actor
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders (born 1982)Governor of Arkansas since 2023
- Otto Liman von Sanders (1855–1929)German general
- Pharoah Sanders (1940–2022)American jazz saxophonist
- Chris Sanders (born 1962)American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor
- Erin Sanders (born 1991)American actress
People named Sanders with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Sanders
Also a first name
Sanders has been given to 2,398 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1951. 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.