# Engh (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/engh/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Norwegian.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norwegian |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 974 |
| US rank (2010) | 25,403 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 316,987 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.2% (926 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Norwegian Engh, a habitational name from Norwegian eng (“meadow”) for a person from a farm near meadow, from Old Norse eng, from Proto-Germanic *angijō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énkos (“a bend; curve; bowl-shape; valley”), from *h₂enk- (“to bend; bow; curve”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Engh in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 96% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 0.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2% |
| Two or more races | 1.0% |

## Similar surnames

Eng, Enoch, Ewing, Ennis, Enos, Eanes, Eames, Emig, Enochs, Enns, Emigh, Eunice.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.