How common is the surname Inglis?

2,649 people in the United States had the surname Inglis in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,552 Americans. It ranked 11,815th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Inglis?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Inglis identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Inglis?

Maddison Inglis, Australian tennis player, followed by Josh Inglis.

Where is the surname Inglis most common?

Wikidata records people named Inglis in Australia, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States.

Is the surname Inglis getting more or less common?

More common. 2,572 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,649 in 2010, up 3.0%.

The surname Inglis

A surname, carried by 2,649 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex I524

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Inglis is more common than 92.7% of them.

Origin

From English.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,649 people named Inglis in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 116,552 Americans. That is up 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,572.

#11,815

rank among US surnames

2,649

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+3%

change since 2000 (was #11,282)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,807	Woodburn	2,651	116,464
#11,810	Killough	2,650	116,508
#11,815	Inglis	2,649	116,552
#11,818	Nalls	2,648	116,596
#11,821	Glasper	2,647	116,640

Who is named Inglis

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

93% of people named Inglis identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Ingliss

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Maddison Inglis
Australian tennis player, born 1998
Josh Inglis
Australian cricketer, born 1995
Charles Inglis
British civil engineer (1875-1952)
Agnes Inglis
American anarchist archivist (1870-1952)

Notable Ingliss come mostly from Australia (2), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Inglis

Inglis has the Soundex code I524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code I524.

Questions

Where does the surname Inglis come from?: From English.
How common is the surname Inglis?: 2,649 people in the United States had the surname Inglis in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,552 Americans. It ranked 11,815th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Inglis?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Inglis identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Inglis?: Maddison Inglis, Australian tennis player, followed by Josh Inglis.
Where is the surname Inglis most common?: Wikidata records people named Inglis in Australia, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States.
Is the surname Inglis getting more or less common?: More common. 2,572 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,649 in 2010, up 3.0%.