How common is the surname Herridge?

512 people in the United States had the surname Herridge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 603,019 Americans. It ranked 42,378th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Herridge?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Herridge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Herridge getting more or less common?

More common. 431 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 512 in 2010, up 19%.

The surname Herridge

An English place surname, carried by 512 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H632

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Herridge is more common than 73.9% of them.

Origin

English origin

Possibly a habitational surname from the village of Eridge, in East Sussex, named from Old English earn (“eagle”) + hryċġ (“ridge”), or alternatively from the town of Harwich, in Essex, from Old English here (“army”) + wīc (“abode, dwelling place”).

Herridge 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 512 people named Herridge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 603,019 Americans. That is up 19% since 2000, when the Census counted 431.

#42,378

rank among US surnames

512

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

+18.8%

change since 2000 (was #46,523)

Who is named Herridge

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

94% of people named Herridge identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
Two or more races 1.2%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Harridge

Surnames that sound like Herridge

Heritage

Herridge has the Soundex code H632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H632.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Herridge come from?: Possibly a habitational surname from the village of Eridge, in East Sussex, named from Old English earn (“eagle”) + hryċġ (“ridge”), or alternatively from the town of Harwich, in Essex, from Old English here (“army”) + wīc (“abode, dwelling place”).
How common is the surname Herridge?: 512 people in the United States had the surname Herridge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 603,019 Americans. It ranked 42,378th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Herridge?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Herridge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Herridge?: Herridge is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Herridge getting more or less common?: More common. 431 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 512 in 2010, up 19%.
What are other spellings of Herridge?: Harridge.