Upshaw

Upshaw is the 4,813th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,122 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 42,000.

By the numbers

People: 7,122
Rank: 4,813th
How common: 1 in 42,000
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place, from Old English upp (“up; upper”) + sċeaga (“copse, thicket”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 54.0%
White, not Hispanic 31.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Upshaw

Dawn Upshaw (born 1960)American soprano
Robert Upshaw (born 1994)American basketball player

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

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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.