How common is the surname Howarth?

4,269 people in the United States had the surname Howarth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 72,323 Americans. It ranked 7,774th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Howarth?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Howarth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Howarth?

Howarth is /ˈhoʊwəɹθ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Howarth getting more or less common?

More common. 4,182 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,269 in 2010, up 2.1%.

What are other spellings of Howarth?

Hawrth, Hourth, Hearwarthe, Huarth and Howorth.

The surname Howarth

An English place surname, carried by 4,269 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈhoʊwəɹθ/ 2 syllables Soundex H630

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Howarth is more common than 95.2% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from a minor place near Rochdale, in Lancashire, from Old English hōh (“spur of land”) + worþ (“enclosure”).

Howarth 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 4,269 people named Howarth in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 72,323 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,182.

#7,774

rank among US surnames

4,269

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+2.1%

change since 2000 (was #7,338)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,767	Niemi	4,272	72,272
#7,771	Hinkley	4,271	72,289
#7,772	Grewal	4,270	72,306
#7,774	McCollough	4,269	72,323
#7,776	Husted	4,268	72,340
#7,778	Saltzman	4,267	72,357

Who is named Howarth

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

94% of people named Howarth identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Hawrth
Hourth
Hearwarthe
Huarth
Howorth

Surnames that sound like Howarth

Howarth has the Soundex code H630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H630.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Howarth come from?: Habitational surname from a minor place near Rochdale, in Lancashire, from Old English hōh (“spur of land”) + worþ (“enclosure”).
How common is the surname Howarth?: 4,269 people in the United States had the surname Howarth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 72,323 Americans. It ranked 7,774th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Howarth?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Howarth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Howarth?: Howarth is /ˈhoʊwəɹθ/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Howarth?: Howarth is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Howarth getting more or less common?: More common. 4,182 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,269 in 2010, up 2.1%.
What are other spellings of Howarth?: Hawrth, Hourth, Hearwarthe, Huarth and Howorth.