How common is the surname Etherton?

1,820 people in the United States had the surname Etherton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 169,640 Americans. It ranked 15,959th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Etherton?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Etherton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Etherton getting more or less common?

More common. 1,809 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,820 in 2010, up 0.6%.

The surname Etherton

A surname, carried by 1,820 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex E363

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Etherton is more common than 90.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,820 people named Etherton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 169,640 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,809.

#15,959

rank among US surnames

1,820

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+0.6%

change since 2000 (was #14,995)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,955	Brightman	1,821	169,547
#15,959	Burchette	1,820	169,640
#15,964	Cuccia	1,819	169,734

Who is named Etherton

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

96% of people named Etherton identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Etherton

Etherton has the Soundex code E363, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E363.

Questions

How common is the surname Etherton?: 1,820 people in the United States had the surname Etherton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 169,640 Americans. It ranked 15,959th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Etherton?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Etherton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Etherton getting more or less common?: More common. 1,809 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,820 in 2010, up 0.6%.