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    The surname Newhouse

    A place surname, carried by 6,471 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex N200

    Newhouse: #5,377 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Newhouse #5,377, 6,471 people Newhouse: #5,377 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Newhouse #5,377, 6,471 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Newhouse is more common than 96.7% of them.

    Origin

    * From new + house. * Calque of German Neuhaus. Derived from Neuhaus (cf. Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr.), anglicization of German Neuhaus. From neu+Haus. Cognate with, Catalan Casanova, French Maisonneuve, German Neuhaus, Italian Casanova, Occitan Casanova.

    Newhouse is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,471 people named Newhouse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 47,712 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,399.

    #5,377
    rank among US surnames
    6,471
    people in 2010
    2.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #5,033)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,374Canter6,47747,668
    #5,375Billups6,47547,683
    #5,376Valentino6,47447,690
    #5,377Newhouse6,47147,712

    Who is named Newhouse

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

    88% of people named Newhouse identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Newhouses

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Fred Newhouse
      American athletics competitor (1948–2025)
    • Dan Newhouse
      American politician, born 1955
    • Jean Shiley
      American athletics competitor, 1911–1998

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Newhouse

    Newhouse has the Soundex code N200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N200.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Newhouse come from?
    * From new + house. * Calque of German Neuhaus. Derived from Neuhaus (cf. Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr.), anglicization of German Neuhaus. From neu+Haus. Cognate with, Catalan Casanova, French Maisonneuve, German Neuhaus, Italian Casanova, Occitan Casanova.
    How common is the surname Newhouse?
    6,471 people in the United States had the surname Newhouse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,712 Americans. It ranked 5,377th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Newhouse?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Newhouse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Newhouse?
    Fred Newhouse, American athletics competitor (1948–2025), followed by Dan Newhouse.
    Where is the surname Newhouse most common?
    Wikidata records people named Newhouse in the United States.
    What type of surname is Newhouse?
    Newhouse is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Newhouse getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,399 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,471 in 2010, up 1.1%.