The surname Billing
An English surname, carried by 1,085 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B452
Origin
English origin
From the Old English surname, named after Billing in Liverpool, from bil (“double-edged sword”).
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 1,085 people named Billing in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 284,558 Americans. That is down 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,252.
Who is named Billing
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Billing identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- White (not Hispanic) 89%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 3.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
- Two or more races 0.9%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Billing
Billing has the Soundex code B452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B452.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Billing come from?
- From the Old English surname, named after Billing in Liverpool, from bil (“double-edged sword”).
- How common is the surname Billing?
- 1,085 people in the United States had the surname Billing in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 284,558 Americans. It ranked 23,432nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Billing?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Billing identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Billing getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,252 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,085 in 2010, down 13%.