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    The surname Hislop

    A surname, carried by 1,354 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H241

    Hislop: #19,852 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hislop #19,852, 1,354 people Hislop: #19,852 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hislop #19,852, 1,354 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hislop is more common than 87.8% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Hyslop.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,354 people named Hislop in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 228,025 Americans. That is up 9.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,237.

    #19,852
    rank among US surnames
    1,354
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.5%
    change since 2000 (was #20,055)

    Who is named Hislop

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

    86% of people named Hislop identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.2%
    • 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

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Hislop

    Hislop has the Soundex code H241, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H241.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hislop come from?
    Variant of Hyslop.
    How common is the surname Hislop?
    1,354 people in the United States had the surname Hislop in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 228,025 Americans. It ranked 19,852nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hislop?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Hislop identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hislop getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,237 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,354 in 2010, up 9.5%.