How common is the surname Holdridge?

1,631 people in the United States had the surname Holdridge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 189,298 Americans. It ranked 17,331st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Holdridge?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Holdridge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Holdridge getting more or less common?

More common. 1,577 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,631 in 2010, up 3.4%.

The surname Holdridge

An English place surname, carried by 1,631 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H436

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Holdridge is more common than 89.3% of them.

Origin

English origin

Possibly a habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from Old English heald (“bent, inclined, sloping”) + hryċġ (“ridge, spur”).

Holdridge 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 1,631 people named Holdridge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 189,298 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,577.

#17,331

rank among US surnames

1,631

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+3.4%

change since 2000 (was #16,706)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,322	Noakes	1,633	189,066
#17,323	Galo	1,632	189,182
#17,331	Uhler	1,631	189,298
#17,337	Shake	1,630	189,414

Who is named Holdridge

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

94% of people named Holdridge identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.7%
Two or more races 1.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

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 Holdridge

Holdridge has the Soundex code H436, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H436.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Holdridge come from?: Possibly a habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from Old English heald (“bent, inclined, sloping”) + hryċġ (“ridge, spur”).
How common is the surname Holdridge?: 1,631 people in the United States had the surname Holdridge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 189,298 Americans. It ranked 17,331st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Holdridge?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Holdridge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Holdridge?: Holdridge is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Holdridge getting more or less common?: More common. 1,577 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,631 in 2010, up 3.4%.