How common is the surname Hendershot?

5,963 people in the United States had the surname Hendershot in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 51,777 Americans. It ranked 5,805th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hendershot?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Hendershot identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Hendershot getting more or less common?

Less common. 5,967 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,963 in 2010, down 0.1%.

The surname Hendershot

A surname, carried by 5,963 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H536

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hendershot is more common than 96.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,963 people named Hendershot in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 51,777 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 5,967.

#5,805

rank among US surnames

5,963

people in 2010

2.0

per 100,000 Americans

-0.1%

change since 2000 (was #5,369)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,801	Schick	5,967	51,742
#5,802	Kiernan	5,966	51,751
#5,804	Sadowski	5,965	51,760
#5,805	Hendershot	5,963	51,777
#5,806	Downes	5,956	51,838

Who is named Hendershot

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

95% of people named Hendershot identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hendershot

Hendershot has the Soundex code H536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H536.

Questions

How common is the surname Hendershot?: 5,963 people in the United States had the surname Hendershot in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 51,777 Americans. It ranked 5,805th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hendershot?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Hendershot identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Hendershot getting more or less common?: Less common. 5,967 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,963 in 2010, down 0.1%.