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    The surname Holdsworth

    An English place surname, carried by 1,991 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H432

    Holdsworth: #14,870 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Holdsworth #14,870, 1,991 people Holdsworth: #14,870 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Holdsworth #14,870, 1,991 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Holdsworth is more common than 90.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Old English personal name Halda + -s- + worþ (“enclosure”).

    Holdsworth 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 1,991 people named Holdsworth in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 155,071 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,956.

    #14,870
    rank among US surnames
    1,991
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.8%
    change since 2000 (was #14,115)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,862Werts1,993154,915
    #14,866Atlas1,992154,993
    #14,870Alvord1,991155,071
    #14,876Bajwa1,990155,149
    #14,878Townson1,989155,227

    Who is named Holdsworth

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

    96% of people named Holdsworth identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as two or more races and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, 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

    Variant spellings

    • Holsworth
    • Houldsworth

    Holdsworth has the Soundex code H432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H432.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Holdsworth come from?
    From the Old English personal name Halda + -s- + worþ (“enclosure”).
    How common is the surname Holdsworth?
    1,991 people in the United States had the surname Holdsworth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 155,071 Americans. It ranked 14,870th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Holdsworth?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Holdsworth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Holdsworth?
    Holdsworth is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Holdsworth getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,956 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,991 in 2010, up 1.8%.
    What are other spellings of Holdsworth?
    Holsworth and Houldsworth.