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    The surname Papworth

    An English place surname, carried by 318 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P163

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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). Papworth is more common than 61.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from the villages of Papworth Everard and Papworth St Agnes, from the Old English personal name *Papa + worþ (“enclosure”).

    Papworth 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 318 people named Papworth in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 970,898 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 302.

    #62,903
    rank among US surnames
    318
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.3%
    change since 2000 (was #62,046)

    Who is named Papworth

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

    95% of people named Papworth identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Papworth come from?
    Habitational surname from the villages of Papworth Everard and Papworth St Agnes, from the Old English personal name *Papa + worþ (“enclosure”).
    How common is the surname Papworth?
    318 people in the United States had the surname Papworth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 970,898 Americans. It ranked 62,903rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Papworth?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Papworth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Papworth?
    Papworth is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Papworth getting more or less common?
    More common. 302 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 318 in 2010, up 5.3%.