How common is the surname Batchelor?

9,417 people in the United States had the surname Batchelor in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 32,786 Americans. It ranked 3,762nd of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Batchelor?

George Batchelor, Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist (1920–2000), followed by Stephen Batchelor.

Where is the surname Batchelor most common?

Wikidata records people named Batchelor in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Is the surname Batchelor getting more or less common?

More common. 9,389 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,417 in 2010, up 0.3%.

The surname Batchelor

A surname, carried by 9,417 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex B324

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Batchelor is more common than 97.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,417 people named Batchelor in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 32,786 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 9,389.

#3,762

rank among US surnames

9,417

people in 2010

3.2

per 100,000 Americans

+0.3%

change since 2000 (was #3,483)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,753	Timm	9,433	32,730
#3,754	Swisher	9,431	32,737
#3,755	Hardman	9,430	32,741
#3,757	Toler	9,427	32,751
#3,758	Cohn	9,426	32,755
#3,759	Seaton	9,423	32,765
#3,760	Ashford	9,421	32,772

Who is named Batchelor

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

81% of people named Batchelor identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 81%
Black (not Hispanic) 14%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Batchelors

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

George Batchelor
Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist (1920–2000)
Stephen Batchelor
British Buddhist philosopher, born 1953
John Batchelor
Anthropologist (1854-1944)

Notable Batchelors come mostly from the United Kingdom (2) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Batchelor

Batchelor has the Soundex code B324, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B324.

Questions

How common is the surname Batchelor?: 9,417 people in the United States had the surname Batchelor in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 32,786 Americans. It ranked 3,762nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Batchelor?: In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Batchelor identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Batchelor?: George Batchelor, Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist (1920–2000), followed by Stephen Batchelor.
Where is the surname Batchelor most common?: Wikidata records people named Batchelor in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Is the surname Batchelor getting more or less common?: More common. 9,389 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,417 in 2010, up 0.3%.