The surname Featherstone
An English surname, carried by 3,234 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex F362
Origin
English origin
From Middle English featherston, fetherstane, from Old English feoþerstān, fiþerstān (literally “four-stone”), from Old English fiþer- (“four”) + stān (“stone”).
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 3,234 people named Featherstone in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 95,469 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,074.
Who is named Featherstone
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
69% of people named Featherstone identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 69%
- Black (not Hispanic) 25%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Featherstone
Featherstone has the Soundex code F362, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F362.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Featherstone come from?
- From Middle English featherston, fetherstane, from Old English feoþerstān, fiþerstān (literally “four-stone”), from Old English fiþer- (“four”) + stān (“stone”).
- How common is the surname Featherstone?
- 3,234 people in the United States had the surname Featherstone in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,469 Americans. It ranked 9,976th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Featherstone?
- In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Featherstone identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Featherstone getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,074 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,234 in 2010, up 5.2%.