Taft
At the 2020 census, 8,632 Americans bore the surname Taft — 3,989th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 34,600.
By the numbers
- People
- 8,632
- Rank
- 3,989th
- How common
- 1 in 34,600
- Per 100,000
- 2.9
Where the name comes from
In the United States, many of the places established since 1909 are named after William Howard Taft.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Taft described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Taft
- William Howard Taft (1857–1930)27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913
- Helen Herron Taft (1861–1943)First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913
- Robert A. Taft (1889–1953)American politician, son of 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft
- Alphonso Taft (1810–1891)American diplomat
- Hessy Levinsons Taft (1934–2026)German-Jewish model and chemist
- Bob Taft (born 1942)American politician in Ohio
- Lorado Taft (1860–1936)American sculptor and writer
- Robert Taft Jr. (1917–1993)American politician
People named Taft with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Taft
Also a first name
Taft has been given to 1,544 American babies as a first name since 1907, peaking in 1908. 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.