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    The surname Horsfield

    An English place surname, carried by 311 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H621

    Horsfield: #64,054 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Horsfield #64,054, 311 people Horsfield: #64,054 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Horsfield #64,054, 311 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Horsfield is more common than 60.5% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Either a variant of Horsfall or a habitational surname from a lost place in England, from Old English hors (“horse”) + feld (“field”).

    Horsfield 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 311 people named Horsfield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 992,751 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 311.

    #64,054
    rank among US surnames
    311
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #60,557)

    Who is named Horsfield

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

    97% of people named Horsfield identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial 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

    • Horsefield
    • Hosfield

    Surnames that sound like Horsfield

    Horsfield has the Soundex code H621, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H621.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Horsfield come from?
    Either a variant of Horsfall or a habitational surname from a lost place in England, from Old English hors (“horse”) + feld (“field”).
    How common is the surname Horsfield?
    311 people in the United States had the surname Horsfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 992,751 Americans. It ranked 64,054th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Horsfield?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Horsfield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Horsfield?
    Horsfield is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Horsfield getting more or less common?
    About as common. 311 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 311 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.
    What are other spellings of Horsfield?
    Horsefield and Hosfield.