Oliphant

Oliphant is the 6,008th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,513 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 54,200.

By the numbers

People: 5,513
Rank: 6,008th
How common: 1 in 54,200
Per 100,000: 1.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.4%
Black, not Hispanic 25.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Oliphant

Mark Oliphant (1901–2000)nuclear physicist, Governor of South Australia
Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897)Scottish novelist
Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888)British author, traveller, diplomat and Christian mystic

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

Surnames like Oliphant

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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.