Singh

163,612 people in the United States were counted with the surname Singh in the 2020 census, making it the 156th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,827.

By the numbers

People: 163,612
Rank: 156th
How common: 1 in 1,827
Per 100,000: 54.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Punjabi

From Hindi सिंघ (“lion”) or Punjabi ਸਿੰਘ (“lion”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 85.3%
White, not Hispanic 4.7%
Black, not Hispanic 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Singh

Manmohan Singh (1932–2024)Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
Rajnath Singh (born 1951)Indian politician
Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708)tenth Sikh guru
Charan Singh (1902–1987)Prime Minister of India
Zail Singh (1916–1994)President of India from 1982 to 1987
Bhagat Singh (1907–1931)Indian revolutionary
Ranveer Singh (born 1985)Indian actor
V. P. Singh (1931–2008)Prime Minister of India

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

Surnames like Singh

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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.