Singer

At the 2020 census, 24,788 Americans bore the surname Singer — 1,400th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,100.

By the numbers

People: 24,788
Rank: 1,400th
How common: 1 in 12,100
Per 100,000: 8.3

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 Singer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991)Polish-American writer
Peter Singer (born 1946)Australian moral philosopher
Isaac Singer (1811–1875)American businessman; inventor of the Singer sewing machine
Bryan Singer (born 1965)American film director and producer
Isadore Singer (1924–2021)American mathematician
Eric Singer (born 1958)American drummer
Marc Singer (born 1948)Canadian-American actor
Lori Singer (born 1957)American actress and classical musician

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

Surnames like Singer

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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.