How common is the surname Ormerod?

440 people in the United States had the surname Ormerod in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 701,694 Americans. It ranked 48,060th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Ormerod?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Ormerod identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Ormerod?

Eleanor Anne Ormerod, British entomologist, editor (1828-1901).

Where is the surname Ormerod most common?

Wikidata records people named Ormerod in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Is the surname Ormerod getting more or less common?

More common. 420 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 440 in 2010, up 4.8%.

The surname Ormerod

An English place surname, carried by 440 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex O656

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ormerod is more common than 70.4% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from the Old Norse personal name Ormr + Old English rōd (“cross; a measure of land area”).

Ormerod 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 440 people named Ormerod in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 701,694 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 420.

#48,060

rank among US surnames

440

people in 2010

0.1

per 100,000 Americans

+4.8%

change since 2000 (was #47,485)

Who is named Ormerod

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

97% of people named Ormerod identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Ormerods

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Eleanor Anne Ormerod
British entomologist, editor (1828-1901)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Ormrod

Surnames that sound like Ormerod

Orner

Ormerod has the Soundex code O656, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O656.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Ormerod come from?: Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from the Old Norse personal name Ormr + Old English rōd (“cross; a measure of land area”).
How common is the surname Ormerod?: 440 people in the United States had the surname Ormerod in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 701,694 Americans. It ranked 48,060th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ormerod?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Ormerod identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Ormerod?: Eleanor Anne Ormerod, British entomologist, editor (1828-1901).
Where is the surname Ormerod most common?: Wikidata records people named Ormerod in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
What type of surname is Ormerod?: Ormerod is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Ormerod getting more or less common?: More common. 420 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 440 in 2010, up 4.8%.
What are other spellings of Ormerod?: Ormrod.