How common is the surname Congleton?

1,479 people in the United States had the surname Congleton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 208,753 Americans. It ranked 18,614th of 162,253 surnames.

How do you pronounce Congleton?

Congleton is /ˈkɒŋɡəltən/, 3 syllables.

Is the surname Congleton getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,480 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,479 in 2010, down 0.1%.

The surname Congleton

An English place surname, carried by 1,479 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈkɒŋɡəltən/ 3 syllables Soundex C524

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Congleton is more common than 88.5% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English cung (“mound”) + hyll (“hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Congleton 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 1,479 people named Congleton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 208,753 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,480.

#18,614

rank among US surnames

1,479

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-0.1%

change since 2000 (was #17,540)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,609	Bosquez	1,480	208,612
#18,614	Hayles	1,479	208,753
#18,622	Soroka	1,478	208,894

Who is named Congleton

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

88% of people named Congleton identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 88%
Black (not Hispanic) 7.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
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 Congleton

Congleton has the Soundex code C524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C524.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Congleton come from?: From Old English cung (“mound”) + hyll (“hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
How common is the surname Congleton?: 1,479 people in the United States had the surname Congleton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 208,753 Americans. It ranked 18,614th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Congleton?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Congleton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
How do you pronounce Congleton?: Congleton is /ˈkɒŋɡəltən/, 3 syllables.
What type of surname is Congleton?: Congleton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Congleton getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,480 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,479 in 2010, down 0.1%.