# List (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/list/  
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 | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,814 |
| US rank (2010) | 8,623 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 80,951 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.2% (3,807 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Dutch and German surname, from the noun list (“wisdom, ingenuity”). * Also as a Dutch surname, from the placename Ter List, from lis (“iris flag”). * As a Hungarian surname, Americanized from Lizst, from the noun liszt (“flour”). * As a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian surname, from list (“leaf”), or Slavicized from the Hungarian surname above.

## Who carries it

Share of people named List 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) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 0.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named List in the United States and Austria.

## People named List

- Peyton List, American actress (born 1986)
- John List, American mass murderer (1925–2008)
- Robert List, American attorney and politician
- John A. List, American economist
- Emanuel List, Austrian opera singer (1888-1967)
- Eugene List, American musician
- Hans List, Austrian automotive pioneer (1896-1996)

## Similar surnames

Leist, Last, Lust, Light, Licht, Lockwood, Lockett, Leggett, Lozada, Luckett, Liggett, Licata.

## 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.