Vaughan

37,970 people in the United States were counted with the surname Vaughan in the 2020 census, making it the 906th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,872.

By the numbers

People: 37,970
Rank: 906th
How common: 1 in 7,872
Per 100,000: 12.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh

from bychan, diminutive of bach (“little”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.4%
Black, not Hispanic 12.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Vaughan

Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954–1990)American blues guitarist
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)English composer
Sarah Vaughan (1924–1990)American jazz and classical singer
Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008)African-American mathematician
David Vaughan (born 1983)Welsh footballer
Peter Vaughan (1923–2016)British actor
James Vaughan (born 1988)English association football player
Henry Vaughan (1621–1695)Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet

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

Surnames like Vaughan

Also a first name

Vaughan has been given to 1,637 American babies as a first name since 1911, peaking in 2006. 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.