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    The surname Hambleton

    An English place surname, carried by 1,644 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /ˈhæm.bəl.tən/ 3 syllables Soundex H514

    Hambleton: #17,229 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hambleton #17,229, 1,644 people Hambleton: #17,229 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hambleton #17,229, 1,644 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hambleton is more common than 89.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English hamel (“crooked (hill)”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Hambleton 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 1,644 people named Hambleton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 187,801 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,645.

    #17,229
    rank among US surnames
    1,644
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.1%
    change since 2000 (was #16,160)

    Who is named Hambleton

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

    92% of people named Hambleton identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as two or more races and 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hambleton

    Hambleton has the Soundex code H514, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H514.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hambleton come from?
    From Old English hamel (“crooked (hill)”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Hambleton?
    1,644 people in the United States had the surname Hambleton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 187,801 Americans. It ranked 17,229th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hambleton?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Hambleton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as two or more races.
    How do you pronounce Hambleton?
    Hambleton is /ˈhæm.bəl.tən/, 3 syllables.
    What type of surname is Hambleton?
    Hambleton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Hambleton getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,645 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,644 in 2010, down 0.1%.