Wash

3,061 people in the United States were counted with the surname Wash in the 2020 census, making it the 10,040th most common in the country. That is about one person in 97,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,061
Rank: 10,040th
How common: 1 in 97,600
Per 100,000: 1.0

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 46.0%
White, not Hispanic 44.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Wash

Martha Wash (born 1953)American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer

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

Surnames like Wash

Also a first name

Wash has been given to 1,196 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.