How common is the surname Curnow?

1,069 people in the United States had the surname Curnow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 288,817 Americans. It ranked 23,691st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Curnow?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Curnow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Curnow getting more or less common?

More common. 1,042 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,069 in 2010, up 2.6%.

The surname Curnow

A Cornish surname, carried by 1,069 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C650

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Curnow is more common than 85.4% of them.

Origin

Cornish origin

Anglicized form of Cornish Kernow (“Cornwall”), an ethnic surname for a Cornish person.

One of 18 Cornish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,069 people named Curnow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 288,817 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,042.

#23,691

rank among US surnames

1,069

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+2.6%

change since 2000 (was #22,934)

Who is named Curnow

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

91% of people named Curnow identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.2%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Curnow

Curnow has the Soundex code C650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C650.

Other Cornish surnames

All 18 Cornish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Curnow come from?: Anglicized form of Cornish Kernow (“Cornwall”), an ethnic surname for a Cornish person.
How common is the surname Curnow?: 1,069 people in the United States had the surname Curnow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 288,817 Americans. It ranked 23,691st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Curnow?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Curnow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Curnow getting more or less common?: More common. 1,042 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,069 in 2010, up 2.6%.