{"id":1982,"date":"2018-05-24T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/24\/hottest-homebuyer-last-names\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:35:27","slug":"hottest-homebuyer-last-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/24\/hottest-homebuyer-last-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Tree of Hottest Homebuyer Last Names in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home sales nationwide decreased 4 percent in 2017 compared to 2016, but sales to buyers with last names of&nbsp;<strong>Lin, Zhang, Wu, Liu<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Huang<\/strong>&nbsp;increased by more than 20 percent while sales to buyers with last names of&nbsp;<strong>Burns, Porter, Jenkins<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Cole<\/strong>&nbsp;decreased by 15 percent or more, according to a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.attomdata.com\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATTOM Data Solutions<\/a>&nbsp;analysis of homebuyer surnames in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For this analysis, ATTOM looked at buyer last names on more than 2.3 million single family home sales deeds nationwide in 2016 and 2017 to determine the hottest names based on percentage increase in home purchases. The analysis also looked at family name origin information from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/learn\/facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ancestry.com<\/a>&nbsp;for the hottest homebuyer names, as well as where these buyer names are most active by local market<\/p>\n<p>The top 8 hottest homebuyer last names in 2017 were of Chinese origin, with the ninth and 10<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;on the list of Korean and Vietnamese origin. The graphic below maps out family name origin information for all 24 buyer last names with at least 1,000 single family home purchases in 2017 and an increase of at least 1 percent in home purchases compared to 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/01\/infographic_hottest_familynames.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/01\/infographic_hottest_familynames.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1014\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hottest homebuyer last names in 2017 varied by state, from&nbsp;<strong>Liu<\/strong>&nbsp;in Washington to&nbsp;<strong>Larson<\/strong>&nbsp;in Florida, and from&nbsp;<strong>Mitchell<\/strong>&nbsp;in Nevada to&nbsp;<strong>Morales<\/strong>&nbsp;in Colorado. To determine hottest homebuyer last names for each state we looked at names with at least 1,000 home purchases nationwide and at least 50 home purchases statewide in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>One buyer last name registered as hottest in three states \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Liu<\/strong>&nbsp;in Maryland (2017 home purchases up 74 percent), Pennsylvania (2017 home purchases up 64 percent), and Washington (2017 home purchases up 68 percent). Eight buyer names came out on top in two states \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Anderson<\/strong>&nbsp;in Montana and Oklahoma; Davis in Arkansas and Kentucky;&nbsp;<strong>Ellis<\/strong>&nbsp;in Illinois and Virginia;&nbsp;<strong>Larson<\/strong>in California and Florida;&nbsp;<strong>Miller<\/strong>&nbsp;in Kansas and New Mexico;&nbsp;<strong>Nguyen<\/strong>&nbsp;in Louisiana and Oregon; and&nbsp;<strong>Walker<\/strong>&nbsp;in Alabama and South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The interactive heat map below shows the hottest buyer names in each state.<\/p>\n<div id=\"viz1527115939985\" class=\"tableauPlaceholder\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"tableauViz\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; display: block;\" title=\"data visualization\" xml=\"lang\" src=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/views\/HottestHomebuyerFamilyNamesbyState\/Dashboard1?:embed=y&amp;:showVizHome=no&amp;:host_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublic.tableau.com%2F&amp;:embed_code_version=3&amp;:tabs=no&amp;:toolbar=yes&amp;:animate_transition=yes&amp;:display_static_image=no&amp;:display_spinner=no&amp;:display_overlay=yes&amp;:display_count=yes&amp;publish=yes&amp;:loadOrderID=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Hottest homebuyer last names also varied by metro area \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Li<\/strong>&nbsp;in Dallas, Chicago and Houston;&nbsp;<strong>Peterson<\/strong>&nbsp;in Los Angeles;&nbsp;<strong>Barnes<\/strong>&nbsp;in Atlanta; Castillo in Washington, D.C.;&nbsp;<strong>Reyes<\/strong>&nbsp;in Miami; and&nbsp;<strong>Yang<\/strong>&nbsp;in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The hottest homebuyer last name was&nbsp;<strong>Smith<\/strong>&nbsp;in eight of 64 metropolitan statistical areas analyzed by ATTOM with at least 1,000 single family home sales in 2017 and sufficient buyer name data \u2014 Dayton, Ohio, Des Moines, Iowa, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Greeley, Colorado, North Port-Sarasota, Florida, Spokane, Washington, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Worcester, Massachusetts. The last name&nbsp;<strong>Johnson<\/strong>&nbsp;was the hottest homebuyer last name in five metro areas, with&nbsp;<strong>Brown<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Williams<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Li<\/strong>&nbsp;all registering as hottest in three of the 64 metro areas.<\/p>\n<p>The interactive visual below shows the hottest buyer names in select metro areas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"viz1527116697565\" class=\"tableauPlaceholder\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"tableauViz\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; display: block;\" title=\"data visualization\" xml=\"lang\" src=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/shared\/D6PY4FDKF?:embed=y&amp;:showVizHome=no&amp;:host_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublic.tableau.com%2F&amp;:embed_code_version=3&amp;:toolbar=yes&amp;:animate_transition=yes&amp;:display_static_image=no&amp;:display_spinner=no&amp;:display_overlay=yes&amp;:display_count=yes&amp;publish=yes&amp;:loadOrderID=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"827\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"rt_cta\">\n<p>Please&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.attomdata.com\/contact-us\/\">contact us<\/a>&nbsp;if you have questions about the underlying data referenced in this article, or would like to have access to that data in the form of custom reports, API or bulk files.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home sales nationwide decreased 4 percent in 2017 compared to 2016, but sales to buyers with last names of&nbsp;Lin, Zhang, Wu, Liu&nbsp;and&nbsp;Huang&nbsp;increased by more than 20 percent while sales to buyers with last names of&nbsp;Burns, Porter, Jenkins&nbsp;and&nbsp;Cole&nbsp;decreased by 15 percent or more, according to a new&nbsp;ATTOM Data Solutions&nbsp;analysis of homebuyer surnames in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15802,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - 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