Webb

At the 2020 census, 162,492 Americans bore the surname Webb — 158th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,839.

By the numbers

People: 162,492
Rank: 158th
How common: 1 in 1,839
Per 100,000: 54.4

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.6%
Black, not Hispanic 18.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Webb

Howard Webb (born 1971)English football referee
James E. Webb (1906–1992)administrator of NASA in 1961–1968
Clifton Webb (1889–1966)American actor, singer and dancer
Beatrice Webb (1858–1943)English sociologist, economist, socialist, and social reformer
Lucy Webb Hayes (1831–1889)First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881
Jim Webb (born 1946)American politician, military officer and author
Marc Webb (born 1974)American music video and film director
Sidney Webb (1859–1947)English socialist economist, 1859–1947

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

Surnames like Webb

Also a first name

Webb has been given to 1,658 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1927. 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.