Washburn

Washburn is the 1,816th most common surname in the United States, shared by 19,341 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,500.

By the numbers

People: 19,341
Rank: 1,816th
How common: 1 in 15,500
Per 100,000: 6.5

Where the name comes from

Variant of Washbourne.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Washburn

Margaret Floy Washburn (1871–1939)American psychologist and scholar
Mary Washburn (1907–1994)athletics competitor
Bryant Washburn (1889–1963)American actor
Watson Washburn (1894–1973)American tennis player
William B. Washburn (1820–1887)American businessman and politician from Massachusetts
Cadwallader C. Washburn (1818–1882)General Mills founder and politician
Abigail Washburn (born 1977)American banjo player and singer
Bradford Washburn (1910–2007)American explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer

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

Surnames like Washburn

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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.