How common is the surname Redpath?

719 people in the United States had the surname Redpath in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 429,410 Americans. It ranked 32,079th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Redpath?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Redpath identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Redpath getting more or less common?

Less common. 734 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 719 in 2010, down 2.0%.

The surname Redpath

An English place surname, carried by 719 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R313

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Redpath is more common than 80.2% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from a minor place in Berwickshire, from Old English rēad (“red”) + pæþ (“path, track”).

Redpath 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 719 people named Redpath in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 429,410 Americans. That is down 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 734.

#32,079

rank among US surnames

719

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

-2%

change since 2000 (was #30,120)

Who is named Redpath

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

93% of people named Redpath identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Two or more races 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Ridpath

Redpath has the Soundex code R313, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R313.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Redpath come from?: Habitational surname from a minor place in Berwickshire, from Old English rēad (“red”) + pæþ (“path, track”).
How common is the surname Redpath?: 719 people in the United States had the surname Redpath in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 429,410 Americans. It ranked 32,079th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Redpath?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Redpath identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Redpath?: Redpath is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Redpath getting more or less common?: Less common. 734 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 719 in 2010, down 2.0%.
What are other spellings of Redpath?: Ridpath.