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    The surname Langworthy

    An English place surname, carried by 1,802 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex L526

    Langworthy: #16,071 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Langworthy #16,071, 1,802 people Langworthy: #16,071 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Langworthy #16,071, 1,802 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Langworthy is more common than 90.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from two minor places in Devon, from Old English lang (“long”) + worþig (“piece of land, estate, enclosure”).

    Langworthy 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 1,802 people named Langworthy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 171,335 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,786.

    #16,071
    rank among US surnames
    1,802
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.9%
    change since 2000 (was #15,146)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,064Ochsner1,803171,240
    #16,071Vales1,802171,335
    #16,079Wynkoop1,801171,430

    Who is named Langworthy

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

    92% of people named Langworthy identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Langworthy

    Langworthy has the Soundex code L526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L526.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Langworthy come from?
    Habitational surname from two minor places in Devon, from Old English lang (“long”) + worþig (“piece of land, estate, enclosure”).
    How common is the surname Langworthy?
    1,802 people in the United States had the surname Langworthy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 171,335 Americans. It ranked 16,071st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Langworthy?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Langworthy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Langworthy?
    Langworthy is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Langworthy getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,786 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,802 in 2010, up 0.9%.