How common is the surname Ashcroft?

1,775 people in the United States had the surname Ashcroft in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,941 Americans. It ranked 16,254th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Ashcroft?

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

Who is the most famous person named Ashcroft?

Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (1907-1991), followed by John Ashcroft.

Where is the surname Ashcroft most common?

Wikidata records people named Ashcroft in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States.

Is the surname Ashcroft getting more or less common?

More common. 1,722 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,775 in 2010, up 3.1%.

The surname Ashcroft

An English place surname, carried by 1,775 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). Ashcroft is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from two minor places in England, from Old English æsċ (“ash tree”) + croft (“enclosed field”).

Ashcroft 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 1,775 people named Ashcroft in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 173,941 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,722.

#16,254

rank among US surnames

1,775

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+3.1%

change since 2000 (was #15,583)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,247	Haddon	1,777	173,745
#16,250	Saxe	1,776	173,843
#16,254	Ashcroft	1,775	173,941
#16,261	Kinkead	1,774	174,039

Who is named Ashcroft

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

93% of people named Ashcroft identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Ashcrofts

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Peggy Ashcroft
British actress (1907-1991)
John Ashcroft
79th United States Attorney General, born 1942

Notable Ashcrofts come mostly from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Ashcroft

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

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Ashcroft come from?: Habitational surname from two minor places in England, from Old English æsċ (“ash tree”) + croft (“enclosed field”).
How common is the surname Ashcroft?: 1,775 people in the United States had the surname Ashcroft in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,941 Americans. It ranked 16,254th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ashcroft?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Ashcroft identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Ashcroft?: Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (1907-1991), followed by John Ashcroft.
Where is the surname Ashcroft most common?: Wikidata records people named Ashcroft in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States.
What type of surname is Ashcroft?: Ashcroft is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Ashcroft getting more or less common?: More common. 1,722 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,775 in 2010, up 3.1%.