Jack

At the 2020 census, 15,141 Americans bore the surname Jack — 2,345th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,700.

By the numbers

People: 15,141
Rank: 2,345th
How common: 1 in 19,700
Per 100,000: 5.1

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Jak, Jakke (also Jackin, Jankyn, etc.), from Anglo-Norman Jakke, *Janke, from Middle Dutch Janke, diminutive of Jan (“John”); equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 54.3%
Black, not Hispanic 29.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.4%

Notable people called Jack

Jarrett Jack (born 1983)American basketball player
Ryan Jack (born 1992)Scottish association football player
Alister Jack (born 1963)British politician
David Jack (1898–1958)English footballer
Shayna Jack (born 1998)Australian swimmer
Badou Jack (born 1983)Swedish boxer
Just Jack (born 1975)British singer
Wolfman Jack (1938–1995)American DJ and music TV host

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

Surnames like Jack

Also a first name

Jack has been given to 759,677 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1927. 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.