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    The surname Cartledge

    An English place surname, carried by 1,205 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C634

    Cartledge: #21,633 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cartledge #21,633, 1,205 people Cartledge: #21,633 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cartledge #21,633, 1,205 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cartledge is more common than 86.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old Norse kartr (“rocky ground”) + Old English læcc (“boggy stream”).

    Cartledge is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    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 1,205 people named Cartledge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 256,220 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,038.

    #21,633
    rank among US surnames
    1,205
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +16.1%
    change since 2000 (was #22,999)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #21,625Rathke1,206256,008
    #21,633Nakai1,205256,220

    Who is named Cartledge

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

    69% of people named Cartledge identified as white (not Hispanic), 27% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 27%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Cartlidge
    • Catledge

    Surnames that sound like Cartledge

    Cartledge has the Soundex code C634, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C634.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Cartledge come from?
    From Old Norse kartr (“rocky ground”) + Old English læcc (“boggy stream”).
    How common is the surname Cartledge?
    1,205 people in the United States had the surname Cartledge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 256,220 Americans. It ranked 21,633rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cartledge?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Cartledge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 27% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Cartledge?
    Cartledge is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Cartledge getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,038 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,205 in 2010, up 16%.
    What are other spellings of Cartledge?
    Cartlidge and Catledge.