The surname Harshaw
A surname, carried by 1,888 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H620
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,888 people named Harshaw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 163,530 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,622.
#15,503
rank among US surnames
1,888
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+16.4%
change since 2000 (was #16,349)
Who is named Harshaw
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
51% of people named Harshaw identified as white (not Hispanic), 43% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 51%
- Black (not Hispanic) 43%
- Two or more races 3.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Harshaw has the Soundex code H620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H620.
Questions
- How common is the surname Harshaw?
- 1,888 people in the United States had the surname Harshaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,530 Americans. It ranked 15,503rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Harshaw?
- In the 2010 Census, 51% of people named Harshaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 43% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Harshaw getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,622 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,888 in 2010, up 16%.