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    The surname Ironside

    An English place surname, carried by 603 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex I652

    Ironside: #37,029 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Ironside #37,029, 603 people Ironside: #37,029 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Ironside #37,029, 603 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ironside is more common than 77.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Two main origins: * Scottish habitational surname from a place in Aberdeenshire, named with Old English earn (“eagle”) + sīde (“flank, side of a hill”). * English surname from ironside, a nickname for a warrior.

    Ironside 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 603 people named Ironside in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 512,016 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 535.

    #37,029
    rank among US surnames
    603
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +12.7%
    change since 2000 (was #38,833)

    Who is named Ironside

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

    93% of people named Ironside identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Ironside

    Ironside has the Soundex code I652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code I652.

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Ironside come from?
    Two main origins: * Scottish habitational surname from a place in Aberdeenshire, named with Old English earn (“eagle”) + sīde (“flank, side of a hill”). * English surname from ironside, a nickname for a warrior.
    How common is the surname Ironside?
    603 people in the United States had the surname Ironside in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 512,016 Americans. It ranked 37,029th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Ironside?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Ironside identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Ironside?
    Ironside is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Ironside getting more or less common?
    More common. 535 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 603 in 2010, up 13%.