Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post presents the list of the fifty most common Black surnames in the United States and the list of the fifty most common White surnames in the United States.
The United States Census (2010) is the source for both of these lists.
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Thanks to mongabay.com for the online source for this data.
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
These lists are excerpts of two mongabay.com pages. The links for the mongabay.com pages are given below.
The lists of Black surnames include 1998 names and the lists of White names include 2000 names. Some numbers in both lists have more than one name.
Here are the headings for these lists (with the referent "white" replaced with the referent "black" on the Black surname page)
| Last name / Surname | Number of occurrences among people self-identifying as 'white' | Surname rank among whites | % of people with surname self-identifying as 'white |
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/05/50-most-common-african-american.html for a related pancocojams post entitled "50 Most Common African American Surnames (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (1992-2001)".
That 2015 pancocojams post also includes a list of non-African American surnames for that same period of time, That data is from the Allegheny County Health Department (birth statistics. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the largest city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
THE FIFTY MOST COMMON BLACK SURNAMES IN THE UNITED STATES
https://names.mongabay.com/data/black.html
1. William
2. Johnson
3. Smith
4. Jones
5. Brown
6. Jackson
7. Davis
8. Thomas
9. Harris
10. Robinson
11. Taylor
12. Wilson
13. Moore
14. White
15. Lewis
16. Walker
17. Green
18. Washington.
19. Thompson
20. Anderson
21. Scott
22. Carter
23. Wright
24. Miller
25. Hill
26. Allen
27. Mitchel
28. Young
29. Lee
30. Martin
31. Clark
32. Turner
33. Hall
34. King
35. Edwards
36. Coleman
37. James
38. Evans
39. Bell
40. Richardson
41. Adams
42. Brooks
43. Parker
44. Jenkins
45. Stewart
46. Howard
47. Campbell
48. Simmons
49. Sanders
50. Henderson
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THE FIFTY MOST COMMON WHITE SURNAMES IN THE UNITED STATES
https://names.mongabay.com/data/white.html
1.Smith
2.Johnson
3.Miller
4.Brown
5.Jones
6.Williams
7.Davis
8. Anderson
9. Wilson
10.Martin
11.Taylor
12.Moore
13.Thompson
14.White
15.Clark
16.Thomas
17 Hall
18.Baker
19.Nelson
20.Allen
21.Young
22.Harris
23.Adams
24.Adams
25.Lewis
26.Walker
27.Wright
28.Roberts
29. Campbell
30.Jackson
31.Phillips
32.Hill
33.Scott
34.Robinson
35.Murphy
36.Cook
37.Green
38.Lee
39.Evans
40. Peterson
41.Morris
42.Collins
43. Mitchell
44.Parker
45.Rogers
46.Stewart
47.Turner
48. Wood
49. Carter
50. Morgan
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Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia page about the United States Census (2010)
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_census
"The 2010 United States census was the 23rd United States census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010.[1] The census was taken via mail-in citizen self-reporting, with enumerators serving to spot-check randomly selected neighborhoods and communities.
[...]
The term "Negro" was used in the questionnaire as one of the options for African Americans (Question 9. What is Person (number)'s race? ... Black, African Am., or Negro) as a choice to describe one's race. Census Bureau spokesman Jack Martin explained that "many older African-Americans identified themselves that way, and many still do. Those who identify themselves as Negroes need to be included."[42][43] The word was also used in the 2000 census, with over 56,000 people identifying themselves as "Negro".[44] In response to complaints over the word's inclusion on the 2010 census, the Census Bureau announced in 2013 that it would stop using "Negro" going forward, with the 2014 American Community Survey census form being the first without the word.[45]
Perhaps not a controversy, but yet, another challenge for the Census Bureau in 2010 was that almost three million people selected that their race was Black and in combination with another race. This reflects societal changes in the first decade of the 21st century as hospitals had begun recognizing multiple races at the birth of a child. Thus, when parents are reporting their child's race on the census, they selected multiple races.[46]"