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    The surname Critchlow

    A place surname, carried by 1,300 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C632

    Critchlow: #20,434 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Critchlow #20,434, 1,300 people Critchlow: #20,434 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Critchlow #20,434, 1,300 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Critchlow is more common than 87.4% of them.

    Origin

    Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire.

    Critchlow 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 1,300 people named Critchlow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 237,497 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,284.

    #20,434
    rank among US surnames
    1,300
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.2%
    change since 2000 (was #19,470)

    Who is named Critchlow

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

    85% of people named Critchlow identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Critchlow

    Critchlow has the Soundex code C632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C632.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Critchlow come from?
    Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire.
    How common is the surname Critchlow?
    1,300 people in the United States had the surname Critchlow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 237,497 Americans. It ranked 20,434th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Critchlow?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Critchlow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Critchlow?
    Critchlow is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Critchlow getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,284 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,300 in 2010, up 1.2%.