Todd

Todd is the 478th most common surname in the United States, shared by 68,395 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,370.

By the numbers

People: 68,395
Rank: 478th
How common: 1 in 4,370
Per 100,000: 22.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.7%
Black, not Hispanic 13.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Todd

Alexander Todd (1907–1997)British biochemist and Nobel laureate
Mary Todd Lincoln (1818–1882)First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865
Tony Todd (1954–2024)American actor
Richard Todd (1919–2009)Irish-British actor
Thelma Todd (1906–1935)American actress
Emmanuel Todd (born 1951)historian, demographer, anthropologist, sociologist, political scientist
Ann Todd (1907–1993)British actress
Anna Todd (born 1989)American author and screenwriter

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

Surnames like Todd

Todaro

Also a first name

Todd has been given to 283,390 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1964. 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.