Somerville

6,334 people in the United States were counted with the surname Somerville in the 2020 census, making it the 5,309th most common in the country. That is about one person in 47,200.

By the numbers

People: 6,334
Rank: 5,309th
How common: 1 in 47,200
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.4%
Black, not Hispanic 27.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Somerville

Mary Somerville (1780–1872)Scottish scientist, writer and polymath
Bonnie Somerville (born 1974)American actress
Jimmy Somerville (born 1961)Scottish pop singer
Geraldine Somerville (born 1967)Irish actress
Phyllis Somerville (1943–2020)American stage, film and television actress
James Somerville (1882–1949)British Royal Navy officer
Amanda Somerville (born 1979)American singer-songwriter

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

Surnames like Somerville

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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.