Squire

At the 2020 census, 5,213 Americans bore the surname Squire — 6,278th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 57,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,213
Rank: 6,278th
How common: 1 in 57,300
Per 100,000: 1.7

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

White, not Hispanic 66.3%
Black, not Hispanic 25.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Squire

Chris Squire (1948–2015)British musician
John Squire (born 1962)English musician and painter

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

Surnames like Squire

Squires

Also a first name

Squire has been given to 511 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.