Warren

145,946 people in the United States were counted with the surname Warren in the 2020 census, making it the 186th most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,048.

By the numbers

People: 145,946
Rank: 186th
How common: 1 in 2,048
Per 100,000: 48.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

From the Anglo-Norman surname (de) Warenne, a reference to a place called Varenne, a hamlet near Arques-la-Bataille, along the river Varenne in Normandy, from Medieval Latin Warinna, a hydronym of cel/cel-gau origin, from *var-, *ver- (“river, water”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see also the Latin river Avara. Phonetic Germanic influence is shown by the [v] > [w].

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.3%
Black, not Hispanic 23.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Warren

Elizabeth Warren (born 1949)American politician
Alex Warren (born 2000)American singer, songwriter, YouTuber, and influencer
Harry Warren (1893–1981)American composer and lyricist
Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814)American writer
Marc Warren (born 1967)English actor
Lavinia Warren (1841–1919)American circus performer

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

Surnames like Warren

Also a first name

Warren has been given to 185,502 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. 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.