Scarborough

At the 2020 census, 11,781 Americans bore the surname Scarborough — 2,990th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 25,400.

By the numbers

People: 11,781
Rank: 2,990th
How common: 1 in 25,400
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

From the Old Norse personal name Skarði + borg (“fortress”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.4%
Black, not Hispanic 14.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Scarborough

Joe Scarborough (born 1963)American television host and politician
Carl Scarborough (1914–1953)racecar driver
Adrian Scarborough (born 1968)British actor

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

Surnames like Scarborough

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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.