Sears

Sears is the 1,117th most common surname in the United States, shared by 30,821 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,698.

By the numbers

People: 30,821
Rank: 1,117th
How common: 1 in 9,698
Per 100,000: 10.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.1%
Black, not Hispanic 10.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Sears

Teddy Sears (born 1977)American actor
Freddie Sears (born 1989)English association football player
Richard Sears (1861–1943)American tennis player
Eleonora Sears (1881–1968)(1881-1968) American tennis player
Heather Sears (1935–1994)British actress
Winsome Sears (born 1964)American politician and Marine Corps veteran
Evelyn Sears (1875–1966)US tennis player
Robert Sears (1884–1979)fencer

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

Surnames like Sears

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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.