How common is the surname Millhouse?

1,631 people in the United States had the surname Millhouse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 189,298 Americans. It ranked 17,331st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Millhouse getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,635 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,631 in 2010, down 0.2%.

The surname Millhouse

A surname, carried by 1,631 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Millhouse is more common than 89.3% of them.

Origin

From millhouse, from mill + house.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,631 people named Millhouse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 189,298 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,635.

#17,331

rank among US surnames

1,631

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-0.2%

change since 2000 (was #16,238)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,322	Noakes	1,633	189,066
#17,323	Galo	1,632	189,182
#17,331	Uhler	1,631	189,298
#17,337	Shake	1,630	189,414

Who is named Millhouse

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

71% of people named Millhouse identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 71%
Black (not Hispanic) 24%
Two or more races 2.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Millhouse

Millhouse has the Soundex code M420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M420.

Questions

Where does the surname Millhouse come from?: From millhouse, from mill + house.
How common is the surname Millhouse?: 1,631 people in the United States had the surname Millhouse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 189,298 Americans. It ranked 17,331st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Millhouse?: In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Millhouse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Millhouse getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,635 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,631 in 2010, down 0.2%.