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    The surname Greenlaw

    An English place surname, carried by 1,928 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G654

    Greenlaw: #15,250 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Greenlaw #15,250, 1,928 people Greenlaw: #15,250 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Greenlaw #15,250, 1,928 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Greenlaw is more common than 90.6% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English grēne (“green”) + hlǣw (“mountain, mound, hill”).

    Greenlaw 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 1,928 people named Greenlaw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 160,138 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,934.

    #15,250
    rank among US surnames
    1,928
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.3%
    change since 2000 (was #14,236)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,246Soden1,929160,055
    #15,250Moorefield1,928160,138
    #15,255Bohman1,927160,221
    #15,259Fritch1,926160,304

    Who is named Greenlaw

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

    86% of people named Greenlaw identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 9.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Greenlaw

    Greenlaw 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 Greenlaw come from?
    From Old English grēne (“green”) + hlǣw (“mountain, mound, hill”).
    How common is the surname Greenlaw?
    1,928 people in the United States had the surname Greenlaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,138 Americans. It ranked 15,250th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Greenlaw?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Greenlaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Greenlaw?
    Greenlaw is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Greenlaw getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,934 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,928 in 2010, down 0.3%.