Sargent

26,620 people in the United States were counted with the surname Sargent in the 2020 census, making it the 1,293rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,200.

By the numbers

People: 26,620
Rank: 1,293rd
How common: 1 in 11,200
Per 100,000: 8.9

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.0%
Black, not Hispanic 7.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Sargent

Thomas J. Sargent (born 1943)American economist
Josh Sargent (born 2000)American soccer player
Dick Sargent (1930–1994)American actor
Joseph Sargent (1925–2014)American film director
Malcolm Sargent (1895–1967)English conductor, organist and composer
Alvin Sargent (1927–2019)American screenwriter
Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927)American botanist
Trevor Sargent (born 1960)Irish politician

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

Surnames like Sargent

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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.