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The surname Harling

An English place surname, carried by 1,187 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H645

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Harling is more common than 86.5% of them.

Origin

English origin

From the Old English personal name Herela + -ing (“belonging to”).

Harling 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 1,187 people named Harling in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 260,106 Americans. That is down 7.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,282.

#21,878
rank among US surnames
1,187
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
-7.4%
change since 2000 (was #19,491)

Who is named Harling

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

70% of people named Harling identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 70%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 25%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
  • Two or more races 1.3%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Harling

Harling has the Soundex code H645, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H645.

Other English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Harling come from?
From the Old English personal name Herela + -ing (“belonging to”).
How common is the surname Harling?
1,187 people in the United States had the surname Harling in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 260,106 Americans. It ranked 21,878th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Harling?
In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Harling identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Harling?
Harling is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Harling getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,282 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,187 in 2010, down 7.4%.