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    The surname Northcott

    An English place surname, carried by 946 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex N632

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Northcott is more common than 84% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English norþ (“north”) + cot (“cottage”). Doublet of Northcote and Norcott.

    Northcott 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 946 people named Northcott in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 326,369 Americans. That is down 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 955.

    #25,954
    rank among US surnames
    946
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.9%
    change since 2000 (was #24,529)

    Who is named Northcott

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

    95% of people named Northcott identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Northcott

    Northcott has the Soundex code N632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N632.

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Northcott come from?
    From Old English norþ (“north”) + cot (“cottage”). Doublet of Northcote and Norcott.
    How common is the surname Northcott?
    946 people in the United States had the surname Northcott in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 326,369 Americans. It ranked 25,954th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Northcott?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Northcott identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Northcott?
    Northcott is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Northcott getting more or less common?
    Less common. 955 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 946 in 2010, down 0.9%.
    What are other spellings of Northcott?
    Northcutt.