How common is the surname Ashcraft?

9,957 people in the United States had the surname Ashcraft in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,008 Americans. It ranked 3,576th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Ashcraft?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Ashcraft identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Ashcraft getting more or less common?

More common. 9,701 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,957 in 2010, up 2.6%.

The surname Ashcraft

A surname, carried by 9,957 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex A261

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ashcraft is more common than 97.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,957 people named Ashcraft in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 31,008 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,701.

#3,576

rank among US surnames

9,957

people in 2010

3.4

per 100,000 Americans

+2.6%

change since 2000 (was #3,370)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,567	Starling	10,004	30,862
#3,568	Haller	9,992	30,899
#3,569	Thorn	9,988	30,912
#3,571	Curiel	9,983	30,927
#3,573	Stine	9,979	30,940
#3,574	Catalano	9,973	30,958
#3,575	Beckham	9,960	30,999

Who is named Ashcraft

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

93% of people named Ashcraft identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Ashcraft

Ashcraft has the Soundex code A261, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A261.

Questions

How common is the surname Ashcraft?: 9,957 people in the United States had the surname Ashcraft in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,008 Americans. It ranked 3,576th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ashcraft?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Ashcraft identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Ashcraft getting more or less common?: More common. 9,701 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,957 in 2010, up 2.6%.