How common is the surname Norsworthy?

2,295 people in the United States had the surname Norsworthy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 134,530 Americans. It ranked 13,291st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Norsworthy getting more or less common?

More common. 2,253 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,295 in 2010, up 1.9%.

What are other spellings of Norsworthy?

Nasworthy, Nazworth, Norseworthy, Noseworthy and Nosworthy.

The surname Norsworthy

An English place surname, carried by 2,295 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex N626

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Norsworthy is more common than 91.8% of them.

Origin

English origin

English habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Walkhampton, Devon, from the Old English personal name *Norþ, a byname from norþ (“north”), + -s- + worþig (“estate, enclosure”).

Norsworthy 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 2,295 people named Norsworthy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 134,530 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,253.

#13,291

rank among US surnames

2,295

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+1.9%

change since 2000 (was #12,605)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,283	Chaput	2,296	134,471
#13,291	Rolling	2,295	134,530
#13,297	Pruneda	2,294	134,588
#13,300	Golla	2,293	134,647

Who is named Norsworthy

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

86% of people named Norsworthy identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 86%
Black (not Hispanic) 9.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.0%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Nasworthy
Nazworth
Norseworthy
Noseworthy
Nosworthy

Norsworthy has the Soundex code N626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N626.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Norsworthy come from?: English habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Walkhampton, Devon, from the Old English personal name *Norþ, a byname from norþ (“north”), + -s- + worþig (“estate, enclosure”).
How common is the surname Norsworthy?: 2,295 people in the United States had the surname Norsworthy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 134,530 Americans. It ranked 13,291st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Norsworthy?: In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Norsworthy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Norsworthy?: Norsworthy is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Norsworthy getting more or less common?: More common. 2,253 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,295 in 2010, up 1.9%.
What are other spellings of Norsworthy?: Nasworthy, Nazworth, Norseworthy, Noseworthy and Nosworthy.