Stewart

Stewart is the 61st most common surname in the United States, shared by 311,429 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 960.

By the numbers

People: 311,429
Rank: 61st
How common: 1 in 960
Per 100,000: 104.2

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

from enm-esc stewart, from Old English stiġweard.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.4%
Black, not Hispanic 24.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Stewart

Kristen Stewart (born 1990)American actress
James Stewart (1908–1997)American actor and military officer
Patrick Stewart (born 1940)British actor
Rod Stewart (born 1945)English singer and songwriter
Jackie Stewart (born 1939)Scottish racing driver
Jon Stewart (born 1962)American comedian, writer, producer, activist, and television host
Martha Stewart (born 1941)American businesswoman, writer, TV personality
Booboo Stewart (born 1994)American actor

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

Surnames like Stewart

Also a first name

Stewart has been given to 31,285 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1956. 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.