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    The surname Engh

    A Norwegian place surname, carried by 974 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex E520

    Engh: #25,403 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Engh #25,403, 974 people Engh: #25,403 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Engh #25,403, 974 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Engh is more common than 84.3% of them.

    Origin

    Norwegian origin

    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”).

    Engh is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 31 Norwegian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 974 people named Engh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 316,987 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 926.

    #25,403
    rank among US surnames
    974
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.2%
    change since 2000 (was #25,123)

    Who is named Engh

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

    96% of people named Engh identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 1.0% as two or more races.

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

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Engh

    Engh has the Soundex code E520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E520.

    Other Norwegian surnames

    All 31 Norwegian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Engh come from?
    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”).
    How common is the surname Engh?
    974 people in the United States had the surname Engh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 316,987 Americans. It ranked 25,403rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Engh?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Engh identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    What type of surname is Engh?
    Engh is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Engh getting more or less common?
    More common. 926 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 974 in 2010, up 5.2%.