U.S. Frequently Occurring Surnames
Tabulations of all surnames occurring 100 or more times in the 2000 and 2010 census returns. The first link explains the methodology used to identify and edit name data. The second link provides an Excel file of the top 1,000 surnames. The third link provides zipped Excel and CSV (comma-separated) files of the complete list of 162,253 names. The top ten surnames are:
Organization
U.S. Census Bureau
Temporal coverage
2000 - 2010
Spatial coverage
United States of America
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