The surname Liddle
An English place surname, carried by 2,992 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L340
Origin
English origin
Variant of Liddel, from Middle English Lidelesdale &c., from Old English hlÿde (“loud, River Lid”) + dæl (“dale, valley”), now Liddesdale, the valley of the Liddel Water.
Liddle 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 2,992 people named Liddle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 103,190 Americans. That is up 7.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,774.
Who is named Liddle
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Liddle identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.1%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Liddle has the Soundex code L340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L340.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Liddle come from?
- Variant of Liddel, from Middle English Lidelesdale &c., from Old English hlÿde (“loud, River Lid”) + dæl (“dale, valley”), now Liddesdale, the valley of the Liddel Water.
- How common is the surname Liddle?
- 2,992 people in the United States had the surname Liddle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,190 Americans. It ranked 10,683rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Liddle?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Liddle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Liddle?
- Liddle is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Liddle getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,774 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,992 in 2010, up 7.9%.