The surname Cumberland
An English surname, carried by 2,233 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈkʊm.bə.lənd/ 3 syllables Soundex C516
Origin
English origin
From Middle English Cumberland, from Old English Cumberland.
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 2,233 people named Cumberland in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 138,265 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,174.
Who is named Cumberland
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
87% of people named Cumberland identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 87%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Two or more races 2.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Cumberland
Cumberland has the Soundex code C516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C516.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Cumberland come from?
- From Middle English Cumberland, from Old English Cumberland.
- How common is the surname Cumberland?
- 2,233 people in the United States had the surname Cumberland in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 138,265 Americans. It ranked 13,578th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Cumberland?
- In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Cumberland identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
- How do you pronounce Cumberland?
- Cumberland is /ˈkʊm.bə.lənd/, 3 syllables.
- Is the surname Cumberland getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,174 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,233 in 2010, up 2.7%.