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The surname Holgate

A surname, carried by 1,315 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H423

Holgate: #20,239 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Holgate #20,239, 1,315 people Holgate: #20,239 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Holgate #20,239, 1,315 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Holgate is more common than 87.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,315 people named Holgate in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 234,787 Americans. That is down 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,330.

#20,239
rank among US surnames
1,315
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-1.1%
change since 2000 (was #18,965)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#20,232Musil1,316234,609
#20,239Arista1,315234,787
#20,248Gethers1,314234,966

Who is named Holgate

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

85% of people named Holgate identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 85%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 5.5%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 5.2%
  • Two or more races 2.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Holgate

Holgate has the Soundex code H423, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H423.

Questions

How common is the surname Holgate?
1,315 people in the United States had the surname Holgate in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,787 Americans. It ranked 20,239th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Holgate?
In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Holgate identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Holgate getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,330 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,315 in 2010, down 1.1%.