Severance

Severance is the 9,495th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,276 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 91,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,276
Rank: 9,495th
How common: 1 in 91,200
Per 100,000: 1.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Severance

Joan Severance (born 1958)American actress

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

Surnames like Severance

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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.