Wayne

At the 2020 census, 10,010 Americans bore the surname Wayne — 3,479th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 29,900.

By the numbers

People: 10,010
Rank: 3,479th
How common: 1 in 29,900
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

An occupational surname for a cartwright, Old English wægen (“wagon”). Cf.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.5%
Black, not Hispanic 15.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%

Notable people called Wayne

John Wayne (1907–1979)American actor
Lil Wayne (born 1982)American rapper and singer
Ronald Wayne (born 1934)American engineer and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Anthony Wayne (1745–1796)Continental Army general
Patrick Wayne (born 1939)American actor
David Wayne (1914–1995)American actor
Randy Wayne (born 1981)American actor, dancer
Marshall Wayne (1912–1999)American diver

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

Surnames like Wayne

Way
Wayman

Also a first name

Wayne has been given to 356,422 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1947. 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.