The surname Emberton
An English place surname, carried by 1,580 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex E516
Origin
English origin
From the Old English personal name Ēanbeorht + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Emberton 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 1,580 people named Emberton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 195,409 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,397.
Who is named Emberton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Emberton identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as two or more races and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Two or more races 2.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Emberton has the Soundex code E516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E516.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Emberton come from?
- From the Old English personal name Ēanbeorht + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- How common is the surname Emberton?
- 1,580 people in the United States had the surname Emberton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 195,409 Americans. It ranked 17,734th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Emberton?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Emberton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as two or more races.
- What type of surname is Emberton?
- Emberton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Emberton getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,397 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,580 in 2010, up 13%.