How common is the surname Earnshaw?

1,009 people in the United States had the surname Earnshaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 305,992 Americans. It ranked 24,718th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Earnshaw?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Earnshaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Earnshaw getting more or less common?

More common. 959 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,009 in 2010, up 5.2%.

The surname Earnshaw

An English place surname, carried by 1,009 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex E652

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Earnshaw is more common than 84.8% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from a place in Lancashire, from Old English earn (“eagle”) + healh (“nook, angle, recess”). Equivalent to erne + haugh.

Earnshaw 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 1,009 people named Earnshaw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 305,992 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 959.

#24,718

rank among US surnames

1,009

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+5.2%

change since 2000 (was #24,453)

Who is named Earnshaw

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

92% of people named Earnshaw identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7%
Two or more races 1.6%

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

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Surnames that sound like Earnshaw

Earnest

Earnshaw has the Soundex code E652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E652.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Earnshaw come from?: Habitational surname from a place in Lancashire, from Old English earn (“eagle”) + healh (“nook, angle, recess”). Equivalent to erne + haugh.
How common is the surname Earnshaw?: 1,009 people in the United States had the surname Earnshaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 305,992 Americans. It ranked 24,718th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Earnshaw?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Earnshaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Earnshaw?: Earnshaw is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Earnshaw getting more or less common?: More common. 959 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,009 in 2010, up 5.2%.