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The surname Greenhill

A surname, carried by 2,018 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G654

Greenhill: #14,724 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Greenhill #14,724, 2,018 people Greenhill: #14,724 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Greenhill #14,724, 2,018 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Greenhill is more common than 90.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,018 people named Greenhill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 152,996 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,981.

#14,724
rank among US surnames
2,018
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+1.9%
change since 2000 (was #13,980)

Who is named Greenhill

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

74% of people named Greenhill identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 74%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 20%
  • Two or more races 2.7%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
  • 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 Greenhill

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

Questions

How common is the surname Greenhill?
2,018 people in the United States had the surname Greenhill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 152,996 Americans. It ranked 14,724th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Greenhill?
In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Greenhill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Greenhill getting more or less common?
More common. 1,981 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,018 in 2010, up 1.9%.