Webster
At the 2020 census, 70,161 Americans bore the surname Webster — 464th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,260.
By the numbers
- People
- 70,161
- Rank
- 464th
- How common
- 1 in 4,260
- Per 100,000
- 23.5
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 Webster described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Webster
- Noah Webster (1758–1843)American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author
- Daniel Webster (1782–1852)14th and 19th United States Secretary of State
- John Webster (1578–1634)English dramatist
- Jean Webster (1876–1916)American novelist
- Adam Webster (born 1995)English association football player
- Ben Webster (1909–1973)American jazz saxophonist
- William H. Webster (1924–2025)American attorney and jurist, former Chairperson of the Homeland Security Advisory Council
- Alex Webster (born 1969)American bassist
People named Webster with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Webster
Also a first name
Webster has been given to 4,459 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1915. 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.