U.S. last names, 2020

The most-common 20,000 last names (shown here) account for about 72% of the last names that were indexed.

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Notes: There are more than 81 million in the U.S. with names not ranked among the top 20,000.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Graphic: Joe Murphy / NBC News