How common is the surname Biddle?

9,219 people in the United States had the surname Biddle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,490 Americans. It ranked 3,840th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Biddle?

Nicholas Biddle, American financier, banker (1786-1844), followed by Virginia Biddle.

Where is the surname Biddle most common?

Wikidata records people named Biddle in the United States.

Is the surname Biddle getting more or less common?

More common. 9,085 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,219 in 2010, up 1.5%.

The surname Biddle

A surname, carried by 9,219 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B340

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Biddle is more common than 97.6% of them.

Origin

An English surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,219 people named Biddle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 33,490 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,085.

#3,840

rank among US surnames

9,219

people in 2010

3.1

per 100,000 Americans

+1.5%

change since 2000 (was #3,594)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,831	Horst	9,245	33,396
#3,832	Sturm	9,242	33,407
#3,833	Reinhart	9,237	33,425
#3,834	McNutt	9,232	33,443
#3,835	Tu	9,230	33,450
#3,837	Galicia	9,229	33,454
#3,838	Javier	9,226	33,465

Who is named Biddle

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

86% of people named Biddle identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 86%
Black (not Hispanic) 9.2%
Two or more races 1.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Biddles

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Nicholas Biddle
American financier, banker (1786-1844)
Virginia Biddle
American performer (1910–2003)
William P. Biddle
11th Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1853–1923
Annie Dale Biddle Andrews
American mathematician (1885-1940)
James Biddle
American commodore 1783-1848

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Biddell

Surnames that sound like Biddle

Biddle has the Soundex code B340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B340.

Questions

How common is the surname Biddle?: 9,219 people in the United States had the surname Biddle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,490 Americans. It ranked 3,840th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Biddle?: In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Biddle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Biddle?: Nicholas Biddle, American financier, banker (1786-1844), followed by Virginia Biddle.
Where is the surname Biddle most common?: Wikidata records people named Biddle in the United States.
Is the surname Biddle getting more or less common?: More common. 9,085 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,219 in 2010, up 1.5%.
What are other spellings of Biddle?: Biddell.