The surname Old
An English surname, carried by 1,035 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex O430
Origin
English origin
* In Northamptonshire, recorded as Walda in 1086 (DB), becoming Wolde in the 14th century, and later Old. From Old English or Old Saxon wald.
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 1,035 people named Old in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 298,305 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,037.
Who is named Old
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Old identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Olde
- Wold
Old has the Soundex code O430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O430.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Old come from?
- * In Northamptonshire, recorded as Walda in 1086 (DB), becoming Wolde in the 14th century, and later Old. From Old English or Old Saxon wald.
- How common is the surname Old?
- 1,035 people in the United States had the surname Old in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 298,305 Americans. It ranked 24,237th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Old?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Old identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Old getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,037 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,035 in 2010, down 0.2%.
- What are other spellings of Old?
- Olde and Wold.