Find the name.
Know its numbers.
Every first name and surname in America — how many share it, how it sounds, and how rare it really is. Real counts, sweetly served.
Narrow it down
Open full browserWhich names fit your surname?
About the matcherType a surname. We break both names into sounds and show what fits — and what rhymes, doubles up or collides, with the reason for each.
Collections, counted not curated
All lists- By rarity Five honest bands “Rare” means a number of people here, never a feeling.
- Girls By the real split Given overwhelmingly to girls in the census returns.
- Boys By the real split Given overwhelmingly to boys in the census returns.
- Surnames A second ledger Three times deeper than the first-name file.
- Just for fun How many of us? How many people share your exact full name?
- first names 923
- surnames 777
- reporting threshold 100
- census year 2020
Where this page gets its numbers
- Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers