The surname Ormiston
An English place surname, carried by 1,015 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex O652
Origin
English origin
From the Old Norse personal name Ormr + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Ormiston 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 1,015 people named Ormiston in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 304,183 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,013.
Who is named Ormiston
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Ormiston identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as two or more races and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Ormston
Ormiston has the Soundex code O652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O652.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Ormiston come from?
- From the Old Norse personal name Ormr + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- How common is the surname Ormiston?
- 1,015 people in the United States had the surname Ormiston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 304,183 Americans. It ranked 24,608th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Ormiston?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Ormiston identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as two or more races.
- What type of surname is Ormiston?
- Ormiston is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Ormiston getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,013 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,015 in 2010, up 0.2%.
- What are other spellings of Ormiston?
- Ormston.