How common is the surname Garside?

1,146 people in the United States had the surname Garside in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 269,411 Americans. It ranked 22,450th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Garside?

Harry Garside, Australian boxer.

Where is the surname Garside most common?

Wikidata records people named Garside in Australia.

Is the surname Garside getting more or less common?

More common. 1,086 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,146 in 2010, up 5.5%.

The surname Garside

An English place surname, carried by 1,146 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G623

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Garside is more common than 86.2% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from a place in Lancashire, from Middle English garth (“enclosure”) + side (“hill slope”).

Garside 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 1,146 people named Garside in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 269,411 Americans. That is up 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,086.

#22,450

rank among US surnames

1,146

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+5.5%

change since 2000 (was #22,185)

Who is named Garside

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

92% of people named Garside identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.9%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Garsides

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Harry Garside
Australian boxer, born 1997

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Garthside
Gartside

Surnames that sound like Garside

Garst

Garside has the Soundex code G623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G623.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Garside come from?: Habitational surname from a place in Lancashire, from Middle English garth (“enclosure”) + side (“hill slope”).
How common is the surname Garside?: 1,146 people in the United States had the surname Garside in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 269,411 Americans. It ranked 22,450th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Garside?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Garside identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Garside?: Harry Garside, Australian boxer.
Where is the surname Garside most common?: Wikidata records people named Garside in Australia.
What type of surname is Garside?: Garside is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Garside getting more or less common?: More common. 1,086 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,146 in 2010, up 5.5%.
What are other spellings of Garside?: Garthside and Gartside.