How common is the surname Outlaw?

8,901 people in the United States had the surname Outlaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,687 Americans. It ranked 3,991st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Outlaw?

Travis Outlaw, American basketball player (born 1984), followed by Bo Outlaw.

Where is the surname Outlaw most common?

Wikidata records people named Outlaw in the United States.

Is the surname Outlaw getting more or less common?

More common. 8,365 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,901 in 2010, up 6.4%.

The surname Outlaw

A nickname surname, carried by 8,901 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex O340

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Outlaw is more common than 97.5% of them.

Origin

From outlaw, a nickname for someone who no longer had the protection of the law.

Outlaw is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,901 people named Outlaw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 34,687 Americans. That is up 6.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,365.

#3,991

rank among US surnames

8,901

people in 2010

3.0

per 100,000 Americans

+6.4%

change since 2000 (was #3,904)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,982	Aiello	8,927	34,586
#3,983	Baptiste	8,915	34,632
#3,984	Grice	8,914	34,636
#3,985	Freedman	8,913	34,640
#3,986	Bergstrom	8,908	34,659
#3,987	Clausen	8,906	34,667
#3,988	Chew	8,905	34,671

Who is named Outlaw

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

54% of people named Outlaw identified as Black (not Hispanic), 41% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 54%
White (not Hispanic) 41%
Two or more races 2.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Famous Outlaws

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Travis Outlaw
American basketball player (born 1984)
Bo Outlaw
American basketball player (born 1971)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Outler
Outley

Outlaw has the Soundex code O340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O340.

Questions

Where does the surname Outlaw come from?: From outlaw, a nickname for someone who no longer had the protection of the law.
How common is the surname Outlaw?: 8,901 people in the United States had the surname Outlaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,687 Americans. It ranked 3,991st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Outlaw?: In the 2010 Census, 54% of people named Outlaw identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 41% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Outlaw?: Travis Outlaw, American basketball player (born 1984), followed by Bo Outlaw.
Where is the surname Outlaw most common?: Wikidata records people named Outlaw in the United States.
What type of surname is Outlaw?: Outlaw is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Outlaw getting more or less common?: More common. 8,365 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,901 in 2010, up 6.4%.
What are other spellings of Outlaw?: Outler and Outley.