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    The surname Hurd

    An occupational surname, carried by 20,540 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H630

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hurd is more common than 98.9% of them.

    Origin

    From herd.

    Hurd is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 20,540 people named Hurd in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 15,031 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 19,856.

    #1,743
    rank among US surnames
    20,540
    people in 2010
    7.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.4%
    change since 2000 (was #1,654)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #1,734Timmons20,67114,936
    #1,735Palma20,63614,962
    #1,736Escalante20,62614,969
    #1,737Cahill20,62314,971
    #1,738Schaffer20,61414,977
    #1,739Guidry20,60014,988
    #1,740Yee20,59114,994

    Who is named Hurd

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

    75% of people named Hurd identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 75%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 19%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Hurd

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hurd come from?
    From herd.
    How common is the surname Hurd?
    20,540 people in the United States had the surname Hurd in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 15,031 Americans. It ranked 1,743rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hurd?
    In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Hurd identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Hurd?
    Hurd is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Hurd getting more or less common?
    More common. 19,856 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 20,540 in 2010, up 3.4%.