How common is the surname Carruth?

3,854 people in the United States had the surname Carruth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,110 Americans. It ranked 8,541st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Carruth getting more or less common?

More common. 3,748 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,854 in 2010, up 2.8%.

The surname Carruth

A place surname, carried by 3,854 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C630

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Carruth is more common than 94.7% of them.

Origin

Scottish habitational surname, from a place in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire.

Carruth 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 3,854 people named Carruth in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,110 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,748.

#8,541

rank among US surnames

3,854

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+2.8%

change since 2000 (was #8,145)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,532	Mannino	3,857	80,048
#8,534	Ludlow	3,856	80,069
#8,536	Louden	3,855	80,090
#8,541	Petrone	3,854	80,110
#8,547	Winner	3,853	80,131

Who is named Carruth

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

75% of people named Carruth identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 75%
Black (not Hispanic) 19%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Carruth

Carruth has the Soundex code C630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C630.

Questions

Where does the surname Carruth come from?: Scottish habitational surname, from a place in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire.
How common is the surname Carruth?: 3,854 people in the United States had the surname Carruth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,110 Americans. It ranked 8,541st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Carruth?: In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Carruth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Carruth?: Carruth is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Carruth getting more or less common?: More common. 3,748 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,854 in 2010, up 2.8%.