# Potts (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/potts/  
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) | 38,277 |
| US rank (2010) | 902 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 8,066 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.6% (37,687 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Potts 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) | 80% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 14% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.3% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Potts in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.

## People named Potts

- Annie Potts, American actress
- Alec Potts, Australian archer
- Sarah-Jane Potts, British actress
- Michael Potts, American actor
- Richard Potts, American judge (1753-1808)
- Richard Potts, American archaeologist, prehistorian, anthropologist and paleoanthropologist

## Similar surnames

Pitts, Pettis, Pettus, Paddock, Pedigo, Patch, Pathak, Putz, Ptak, Pietsch, Peets, Petz.

## 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.