# Hornaday (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/hornaday/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,126 |
| US rank (2010) | 22,749 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 274,197 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.5% (1,057 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hornaday in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 90% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Hornaday in the United States.

## People named Hornaday

- William Temple Hornaday, American conservationist and zoologist (1854–1937)
- Ann Hornaday, American film critic (1960–2026)

## Similar surnames

Herndon, Harned, Harnden, Harnett, Herandez, Hermida, Hromadka.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.