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    The surname Allingham

    An English place surname, carried by 340 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex A452

    Allingham: #59,470 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Allingham #59,470, 340 people Allingham: #59,470 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Allingham #59,470, 340 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Allingham is more common than 63.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from the village of Alvingham, in Lincolnshire, which is from the Old English personal name Ælfa + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).

    Allingham is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 340 people named Allingham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 908,075 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 333.

    #59,470
    rank among US surnames
    340
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.1%
    change since 2000 (was #57,252)

    Who is named Allingham

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

    93% of people named Allingham identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Allingham

    Allingham has the Soundex code A452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A452.

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Allingham come from?
    Habitational surname from the village of Alvingham, in Lincolnshire, which is from the Old English personal name Ælfa + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).
    How common is the surname Allingham?
    340 people in the United States had the surname Allingham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 908,075 Americans. It ranked 59,470th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Allingham?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Allingham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Allingham?
    Allingham is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Allingham getting more or less common?
    More common. 333 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 340 in 2010, up 2.1%.