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The surname Edmiston

A surname, carried by 4,495 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex E352

Edmiston: #7,404 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Edmiston #7,404, 4,495 people Edmiston: #7,404 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Edmiston #7,404, 4,495 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Edmiston is more common than 95.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,495 people named Edmiston in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 68,686 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,490.

#7,404
rank among US surnames
4,495
people in 2010
1.5
per 100,000 Americans
+0.1%
change since 2000 (was #6,896)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#7,397Wulf4,49968,625
#7,399Bosco4,49868,641
#7,402Valley4,49768,656
#7,404Edmiston4,49568,686
#7,406Roof4,49468,702
#7,408Zou4,49368,717

Who is named Edmiston

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

91% of people named Edmiston identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 91%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 3.2%
  • Two or more races 2.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Edmiston

Edmiston has the Soundex code E352, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E352.

Questions

How common is the surname Edmiston?
4,495 people in the United States had the surname Edmiston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,686 Americans. It ranked 7,404th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Edmiston?
In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Edmiston identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Edmiston getting more or less common?
More common. 4,490 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,495 in 2010, up 0.1%.