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    The surname Catterall

    A Norse place surname, carried by 388 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C364

    Catterall: #53,316 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Catterall #53,316, 388 people Catterall: #53,316 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Catterall #53,316, 388 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Catterall is more common than 67.1% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    Unknown. Possibly from Old English halh (“water meadow”) with given name Cater. Possibly from Old Norse kattarhali (“cat's tail”).

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

    One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 388 people named Catterall in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 795,736 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 366.

    #53,316
    rank among US surnames
    388
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6%
    change since 2000 (was #53,047)

    Who is named Catterall

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

    96% of people named Catterall identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Cattrall
    • Cattrell
    • Cattroll
    • Catherall
    • Cathrall

    Surnames that sound like Catterall

    Catterall has the Soundex code C364, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C364.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Catterall come from?
    Unknown. Possibly from Old English halh (“water meadow”) with given name Cater. Possibly from Old Norse kattarhali (“cat's tail”).
    How common is the surname Catterall?
    388 people in the United States had the surname Catterall in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 795,736 Americans. It ranked 53,316th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Catterall?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Catterall identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Catterall?
    Catterall is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Catterall getting more or less common?
    More common. 366 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 388 in 2010, up 6.0%.
    What are other spellings of Catterall?
    Cattrall, Cattrell, Cattroll, Catherall and Cathrall.