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    The surname Hyslop

    An English place surname, carried by 1,291 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H241

    Hyslop: #20,541 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hyslop #20,541, 1,291 people Hyslop: #20,541 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hyslop #20,541, 1,291 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hyslop is more common than 87.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Scottish habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place, perhaps from Old English hæsel (“hazel”) + hop (“enclosed valley”).

    Hyslop 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 1,291 people named Hyslop in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 239,152 Americans. That is down 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,302.

    #20,541
    rank among US surnames
    1,291
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.8%
    change since 2000 (was #19,263)

    Who is named Hyslop

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

    88% of people named Hyslop identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

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    Surnames that sound like Hyslop

    Hyslop has the Soundex code H241, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H241.

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Hyslop come from?
    Scottish habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place, perhaps from Old English hæsel (“hazel”) + hop (“enclosed valley”).
    How common is the surname Hyslop?
    1,291 people in the United States had the surname Hyslop in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 239,152 Americans. It ranked 20,541st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hyslop?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Hyslop identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Hyslop?
    Hyslop is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Hyslop getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,302 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,291 in 2010, down 0.8%.
    What are other spellings of Hyslop?
    Haslip, Hayslip, Hazelip, Heaslip, Heslep and Heslip.