How common is the surname Easterling?

8,433 people in the United States had the surname Easterling in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 36,612 Americans. It ranked 4,201st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Easterling getting more or less common?

More common. 7,761 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,433 in 2010, up 8.7%.

The surname Easterling

A surname, carried by 8,433 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex E236

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Easterling is more common than 97.4% of them.

Origin

Possibly modeled on Dutch oosterling. Compare sterling.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,433 people named Easterling in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 36,612 Americans. That is up 8.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,761.

#4,201

rank among US surnames

8,433

people in 2010

2.9

per 100,000 Americans

+8.7%

change since 2000 (was #4,227)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,192	Griego	8,456	36,512
#4,193	McLendon	8,453	36,525
#4,194	Forsyth	8,450	36,538
#4,195	Pinkerton	8,446	36,555
#4,196	Sturgill	8,444	36,564
#4,197	Purnell	8,441	36,577
#4,199	Hylton	8,440	36,581

Who is named Easterling

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

68% of people named Easterling identified as white (not Hispanic), 27% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 68%
Black (not Hispanic) 27%
Two or more races 2.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Easterling

Easterling has the Soundex code E236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E236.

Questions

Where does the surname Easterling come from?: Possibly modeled on Dutch oosterling. Compare sterling.
How common is the surname Easterling?: 8,433 people in the United States had the surname Easterling in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 36,612 Americans. It ranked 4,201st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Easterling?: In the 2010 Census, 68% of people named Easterling identified as white (not Hispanic), and 27% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Easterling getting more or less common?: More common. 7,761 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,433 in 2010, up 8.7%.