The Counts surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 9,713 people carried this name — #3,664 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 30,400 people counted. That is up 1% from 9,584 in 2000.

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In print

Counts in Australian newspapers,
1840s–1990s.

1,120 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Counts. The most, 193, date from the 1900s.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 325
Victoria 251
Queensland 187
South Australia 158
Western Australia 89
Tasmania 83
ACT (Canberra) 12
Northern Territory 2

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Counts.

Who carried it

People named Counts,
with a public archive behind them.

  • George Counts
    George Counts 1889–1974 · politician
  • Hilda Counts
    Hilda Counts 1893–1989 · engineer
  • Clayton Counts
    Clayton Counts 1973–2016 · disc jockey
  • David Counts 1936–2023 · politician
  • Johnny Counts 1939–2004 · American football player

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Counts,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States565 records

565 records of the Counts name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 366
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 163
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 13
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 11
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 6
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 5
  • Sacramento County historic burials 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Carl A. Counts

    Born 1917 in Missouri. Enlisted 1943 at Jefferson Barracks; shoe factory worker. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1996, buried at Follis & Sons Funeral Home Inc, Fredericktown, Missouri.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Billy Elwond Counts

    Born 1931; from Dickenson County, Virginia. U.S. Army, light weapons infantryman; declared dead 1950 in North Korea.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Darrell Edward Counts

    U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. Born 1946, died 2000; buried at Springfield National Cemetery, Missouri.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 565 records for Counts in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

Canada1 record

1 record of the Counts name in Canada Nova Scotia Archives name indexes
  1. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Priscilla Counts

    Died 1921 in Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.

Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

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