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    The surname Cherrington

    An English place surname, carried by 905 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C652

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cherrington is more common than 83.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Old English personal name Ceorra or from ġeċierring (“river turn”) + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

    Cherrington 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 905 people named Cherrington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 341,155 Americans. That is up 8.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 834.

    #26,853
    rank among US surnames
    905
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.5%
    change since 2000 (was #27,258)

    Who is named Cherrington

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

    84% of people named Cherrington identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Cherrington

    Cherrington has the Soundex code C652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C652.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Cherrington come from?
    From the Old English personal name Ceorra or from ġeċierring (“river turn”) + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
    How common is the surname Cherrington?
    905 people in the United States had the surname Cherrington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 341,155 Americans. It ranked 26,853rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cherrington?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Cherrington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Cherrington?
    Cherrington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Cherrington getting more or less common?
    More common. 834 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 905 in 2010, up 8.5%.