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    The surname Hursh

    A surname, carried by 1,463 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H620

    Hursh: #18,751 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hursh #18,751, 1,463 people Hursh: #18,751 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hursh #18,751, 1,463 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hursh is more common than 88.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,463 people named Hursh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 211,036 Americans. That is down 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,647.

    #18,751
    rank among US surnames
    1,463
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -11.2%
    change since 2000 (was #16,138)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,747Rusher1,464210,892
    #18,751Jansson1,463211,036
    #18,757Wilker1,462211,180

    Who is named Hursh

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

    93% of people named Hursh identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hursh

    Hursh has the Soundex code H620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H620.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hursh?
    1,463 people in the United States had the surname Hursh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 211,036 Americans. It ranked 18,751st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hursh?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Hursh identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Hursh getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,647 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,463 in 2010, down 11%.