100 most common 4 letter last names in the United States

In this section we'll look at the most common 4 letter last names in the United States. Currently, there are 24,366,450 people who have a last name that is 4 letters long.

These names are taken directly from the most recent 2010 Decennial Census data.

Most popular 4 letter last name

Currently, the most popular 4 letter last name in America is King, with a total count of 465,422 people who have the surname. The surname King occurs roughly 157 times per 100,000 people in the U.S.

The table below shows the 100 most common last names that are 4 letters long, along with the number of occurrences of each name.

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Name Count White Black API AIAN 2+ Races Hispanic
King 465,422 70.16% 22.76% 1.23% 0.98% 2.31% 2.55%
Hill 434,827 64.36% 29.12% 0.53% 0.97% 2.51% 2.51%
Hall 407,076 72.65% 21.59% 0.64% 0.65% 2.22% 2.25%
Díaz 347,636 5.19% 0.65% 1.19% 0.16% 0.25% 92.56%
Cruz 334,201 5.17% 0.80% 5.19% 0.27% 0.70% 87.88%
Cook 302,589 81.80% 12.55% 0.57% 0.92% 1.98% 2.17%
Reed 277,030 71.29% 22.63% 0.51% 1.05% 2.30% 2.22%
Ward 260,464 75.58% 18.50% 0.49% 0.91% 2.08% 2.44%
Wood 250,715 88.72% 5.57% 0.66% 0.84% 1.79% 2.42%
Gray 246,116 68.68% 25.13% 0.54% 0.91% 2.33% 2.41%
Ruiz 238,234 5.17% 0.44% 1.03% 0.22% 0.24% 92.89%
Long 229,374 79.88% 12.10% 2.48% 1.32% 1.97% 2.24%
Ross 229,368 68.96% 24.46% 0.61% 0.90% 2.32% 2.75%
Bell 220,599 61.11% 32.35% 0.55% 1.01% 2.51% 2.46%
West 195,818 75.48% 18.48% 0.49% 0.83% 2.27% 2.45%
Cole 195,289 75.33% 18.89% 0.55% 0.72% 2.10% 2.41%
Tran 188,498 1.35% 0.10% 96.00% 0.03% 1.70% 0.81%
Ford 184,832 62.05% 32.00% 0.45% 0.61% 2.52% 2.37%
Chen 169,580 1.40% 0.30% 96.12% 0.02% 1.64% 0.52%
Webb 168,878 75.53% 19.08% 0.46% 0.66% 1.99% 2.29%
Shaw 160,400 72.07% 21.19% 1.48% 0.75% 2.15% 2.36%
Hunt 158,421 73.57% 16.93% 0.61% 4.23% 2.35% 2.31%
Boyd 153,469 63.18% 30.77% 0.51% 1.02% 2.36% 2.16%
Rose 153,397 82.08% 11.61% 0.72% 0.64% 1.99% 2.96%
Rice 149,500 77.63% 16.74% 0.57% 0.74% 1.99% 2.33%
Soto 144,451 5.15% 0.48% 0.44% 0.26% 0.22% 93.45%
Ryan 143,452 91.65% 3.02% 0.89% 0.43% 1.46% 2.55%
Dunn 141,427 80.08% 14.39% 0.75% 0.59% 1.94% 2.25%
Hart 137,184 80.54% 13.64% 0.56% 0.73% 2.01% 2.52%
Lane 134,227 77.14% 16.88% 0.61% 0.92% 2.12% 2.33%
Peña 130,776 5.34% 0.52% 1.09% 0.31% 0.24% 92.50%
Rios 127,794 4.99% 0.44% 0.43% 0.32% 0.22% 93.61%
Carr 119,076 73.61% 20.82% 0.49% 0.59% 2.08% 2.41%
Vega 116,673 5.53% 0.56% 0.73% 0.22% 0.29% 92.68%
Dean 114,030 76.61% 16.82% 1.06% 0.68% 2.20% 2.63%
Sims 113,374 54.29% 39.89% 0.41% 0.55% 2.62% 2.24%
Wong 111,371 3.48% 0.79% 86.49% 0.04% 5.20% 4.00%
Reid 111,360 59.83% 34.10% 0.61% 0.56% 2.28% 2.62%
Wang 109,883 2.59% 0.29% 95.24% 0.02% 1.50% 0.35%
Park 106,696 23.34% 0.79% 72.98% 0.16% 1.74% 1.00%
Yang 106,033 1.03% 0.20% 96.81% 0.02% 1.50% 0.45%
Luna 104,518 8.15% 0.40% 1.84% 0.41% 0.41% 88.78%
Wade 97,040 64.94% 29.08% 0.47% 0.74% 2.44% 2.34%
Beck 93,786 90.27% 4.53% 0.74% 0.63% 1.66% 2.17%
Byrd 92,904 59.01% 34.59% 0.36% 1.30% 2.64% 2.11%
Lowe 92,260 73.04% 19.35% 1.68% 0.96% 2.41% 2.56%
Neal 91,694 62.10% 31.84% 0.60% 0.68% 2.61% 2.16%
Holt 87,531 79.38% 14.85% 0.57% 0.87% 2.24% 2.10%
Hale 86,618 82.23% 11.41% 0.54% 1.19% 2.21% 2.42%
Leon 86,363 9.99% 2.95% 1.04% 0.37% 0.44% 85.21%
Hail 86,240 73.14% 21.60% 0.37% 0.53% 2.09% 2.27%
Pham 84,320 0.90% 0.20% 96.33% 0.03% 1.81% 0.72%
Bush 84,018 71.73% 22.44% 0.57% 0.82% 2.15% 2.29%
Mann 83,510 80.39% 9.90% 3.61% 1.32% 2.12% 2.66%
Lara 83,067 5.67% 0.37% 1.14% 0.30% 0.24% 92.28%
Page 82,992 75.12% 18.93% 0.66% 0.65% 2.02% 2.62%
Love 82,873 56.49% 37.03% 0.54% 0.51% 2.90% 2.53%
Paul 78,256 66.99% 20.13% 6.25% 2.05% 1.92% 2.67%
Moss 76,908 69.73% 24.71% 0.48% 0.68% 2.12% 2.28%
Chan 76,664 2.75% 0.75% 89.32% 0.05% 2.54% 4.58%
Khan 76,171 6.89% 3.86% 81.25% 0.54% 5.27% 2.20%
Gill 74,948 65.23% 13.96% 13.43% 0.59% 2.06% 4.74%
Todd 71,759 80.77% 13.58% 0.51% 0.68% 2.11% 2.34%
Tate 71,058 55.59% 38.34% 0.61% 0.84% 2.50% 2.12%
Mack 71,056 44.76% 49.06% 0.70% 0.53% 2.59% 2.37%
Wolf 70,031 93.67% 1.07% 0.61% 1.05% 1.46% 2.16%
Rowe 69,879 79.26% 15.06% 0.64% 0.57% 2.00% 2.47%
Wise 68,649 78.63% 15.55% 0.58% 0.71% 2.14% 2.38%
Ball 66,059 82.32% 12.00% 0.96% 0.58% 1.78% 2.35%
Cobb 65,125 69.98% 24.79% 0.44% 0.64% 2.13% 2.02%
Pope 63,881 70.83% 23.77% 0.47% 0.61% 2.13% 2.19%
Owen 61,630 91.78% 2.37% 0.73% 0.87% 1.71% 2.54%
Lang 61,529 81.36% 10.38% 3.31% 0.59% 1.84% 2.52%
Cain 60,948 77.21% 17.00% 0.75% 0.60% 2.11% 2.33%
Lamb 59,913 86.10% 8.62% 0.70% 0.54% 1.73% 2.29%
Hess 59,486 94.63% 0.93% 0.55% 0.53% 1.38% 1.98%
Beil 59,463 62.10% 32.08% 0.34% 0.87% 2.29% 2.33%
Nash 58,714 69.34% 24.62% 0.53% 0.80% 2.43% 2.29%
Shah 58,287 3.59% 0.94% 91.74% 0.34% 2.70% 0.70%
Roth 58,278 94.86% 0.50% 0.90% 0.29% 1.19% 2.27%
Mora 57,464 7.38% 0.45% 1.07% 0.26% 0.26% 90.59%
Bass 57,044 69.18% 24.53% 0.49% 0.77% 2.31% 2.72%
Huff 55,484 81.37% 13.41% 0.52% 0.70% 1.88% 2.11%
Hood 55,174 74.07% 20.16% 0.52% 1.00% 2.07% 2.18%
Kirk 54,394 82.37% 10.56% 1.29% 1.38% 2.06% 2.34%
Wall 53,794 86.10% 8.21% 0.75% 0.81% 1.81% 2.31%
Meza 53,230 3.73% 0.26% 0.18% 0.18% 0.11% 95.53%
York 53,059 85.81% 8.04% 0.90% 1.00% 1.97% 2.28%
Sosa 52,457 5.10% 0.52% 0.72% 0.18% 0.16% 93.31%
Horn 52,138 85.15% 8.65% 0.98% 1.18% 1.82% 2.22%
Choi 50,786 1.57% 0.31% 96.09% 0.01% 1.49% 0.54%
Bond 50,610 75.91% 17.88% 0.58% 0.85% 2.34% 2.43%
Kane 50,584 89.08% 4.57% 1.67% 0.47% 1.77% 2.43%
Rich 49,481 85.20% 9.29% 0.67% 0.56% 1.87% 2.41%
Koch 49,395 95.29% 0.26% 0.73% 0.29% 1.12% 2.30%
Ware 49,316 48.69% 44.88% 0.47% 0.82% 2.75% 2.39%
Clay 48,844 52.74% 40.50% 0.49% 0.94% 2.90% 2.43%
Kaur 48,753 1.13% 0.27% 96.09% 0.64% 1.50% 0.37%
Berg 48,746 94.69% 0.35% 0.73% 0.47% 1.44% 2.32%
Mata 48,120 5.86% 0.33% 2.58% 0.34% 0.50% 90.39%

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