Greene

At the 2020 census, 122,836 Americans bore the surname Greene — 248th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,433.

By the numbers

People: 122,836
Rank: 248th
How common: 1 in 2,433
Per 100,000: 41.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Greene described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 65.0%
Black, not Hispanic 25.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Greene

Graham Greene (1904–1991)British writer, playwright and literary critic
Ashley Greene (born 1987)American actress
Brian Greene (born 1963)American physicist
Graham Greene (1952–2025)Canadian actor
Peter Greene (1959–2025)American actor
Maurice Greene (born 1974)American sprinter
Marjorie Taylor Greene (born 1974)American politician
Nathanael Greene (1742–1786)American general in the American Revolutionary War

People named Greene with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Greene

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.