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    The surname Greenhalgh

    An English place surname, carried by 2,546 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G654

    Greenhalgh: #12,227 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Greenhalgh #12,227, 2,546 people Greenhalgh: #12,227 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Greenhalgh #12,227, 2,546 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Greenhalgh is more common than 92.5% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English grēne (“green”) + holh (“hollow”).

    Greenhalgh 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 2,546 people named Greenhalgh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,267 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,466.

    #12,227
    rank among US surnames
    2,546
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.2%
    change since 2000 (was #11,653)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,218Hover2,548121,172
    #12,221Berrier2,547121,219
    #12,227Greenhalgh2,546121,267
    #12,229Check2,545121,315
    #12,231Dumond2,544121,362
    #12,236Maly2,543121,410

    Who is named Greenhalgh

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

    95% of people named Greenhalgh identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Greenhalgh

    Greenhalgh has the Soundex code G654, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G654.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Greenhalgh come from?
    From Old English grēne (“green”) + holh (“hollow”).
    How common is the surname Greenhalgh?
    2,546 people in the United States had the surname Greenhalgh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,267 Americans. It ranked 12,227th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Greenhalgh?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Greenhalgh identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Greenhalgh?
    Greenhalgh is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Greenhalgh getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,466 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,546 in 2010, up 3.2%.
    What are other spellings of Greenhalgh?
    Greenhaw.