The surname Bywater
A place surname, carried by 1,032 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex B360
Origin
From by + water, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a lake or river.
Bywater is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,032 people named Bywater in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 299,172 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 988.
Who is named Bywater
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Bywater identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
- Two or more races 1.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Bywater
Bywater has the Soundex code B360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B360.
Questions
- Where does the surname Bywater come from?
- From by + water, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a lake or river.
- How common is the surname Bywater?
- 1,032 people in the United States had the surname Bywater in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 299,172 Americans. It ranked 24,305th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Bywater?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Bywater identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Bywater?
- Bywater is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Bywater getting more or less common?
- More common. 988 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,032 in 2010, up 4.5%.