Vaughn

Vaughn is the 370th most common surname in the United States, shared by 83,826 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,566.

By the numbers

People: 83,826
Rank: 370th
How common: 1 in 3,566
Per 100,000: 28.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh

A variant of Vaughan, from Welsh bychan (“small”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.6%
Black, not Hispanic 22.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Vaughn

Vince Vaughn (born 1970)American actor
Robert Vaughn (1932–2016)American actor
Matthew Vaughn (born 1971)British film producer, director and screenwriter
Billy Vaughn (1919–1991)American singer, multi-instrumentalist, orchestra leader, and A&R man for Dot Records
Frank Vaughn (1902–1959)American soccer player
Jacque Vaughn (born 1975)American basketball coach and former player
Alberta Vaughn (1904–1992)actress
Rashad Vaughn (born 1996)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Vaughn

Also a first name

Vaughn has been given to 22,484 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1949. 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.