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    The surname Greenhaw

    A surname, carried by 1,550 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G650

    Greenhaw: #18,007 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Greenhaw #18,007, 1,550 people Greenhaw: #18,007 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Greenhaw #18,007, 1,550 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Greenhaw is more common than 88.9% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Greenhalgh.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,550 people named Greenhaw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 199,191 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,481.

    #18,007
    rank among US surnames
    1,550
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.7%
    change since 2000 (was #17,530)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,003Wasielewski1,551199,062
    #18,007Spivak1,550199,191

    Who is named Greenhaw

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

    89% of people named Greenhaw identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.9%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Greenhaw

    Greenhaw has the Soundex code G650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G650.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Greenhaw come from?
    Variant of Greenhalgh.
    How common is the surname Greenhaw?
    1,550 people in the United States had the surname Greenhaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 199,191 Americans. It ranked 18,007th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Greenhaw?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Greenhaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Greenhaw getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,481 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,550 in 2010, up 4.7%.