Hart

Hart is the 217th most common surname in the United States, shared by 131,550 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,272.

By the numbers

People: 131,550
Rank: 217th
How common: 1 in 2,272
Per 100,000: 44.0

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

As an English and north/Low German surname, from the noun hart (“stag”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.9%
Black, not Hispanic 13.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Hart

Kevin Hart (born 1979)American comedian and actor
Joe Hart (born 1987)English association football player
Melissa Joan Hart (born 1976)American actress
Oliver Hart (born 1948)British-born American economist
B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970)British historian and theoretician of war
Bret Hart (born 1957)Canadian-American professional wrestler, writer and actor
Beth Hart (born 1972)American blues rock musician
Owen Hart (1965–1999)Canadian wrestler

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

Surnames like Hart

Also a first name

Hart has been given to 1,299 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.