Sturgeon

8,665 people in the United States were counted with the surname Sturgeon in the 2020 census, making it the 3,969th most common in the country. That is about one person in 34,500.

By the numbers

People: 8,665
Rank: 3,969th
How common: 1 in 34,500
Per 100,000: 2.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Black, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon (born 1970)First Minister of Scotland from 2014 to 2023
Theodore Sturgeon (1918–1985)American speculative fiction writer
William Sturgeon (1783–1850)British inventor

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

Surnames like Sturgeon

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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.