The surname Satterthwaite
A Norse place surname, carried by 1,302 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex S363
Origin
Norse origin
From Old Norse sætr (“pasture”) + þveit (“clearing”).
Satterthwaite is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,302 people named Satterthwaite in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 237,132 Americans. That is up 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,225.
Who is named Satterthwaite
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
79% of people named Satterthwaite identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.3% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 79%
- Black (not Hispanic) 17%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Satterthwaite
Satterthwaite has the Soundex code S363, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S363.
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Satterthwaite come from?
- From Old Norse sætr (“pasture”) + þveit (“clearing”).
- How common is the surname Satterthwaite?
- 1,302 people in the United States had the surname Satterthwaite in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 237,132 Americans. It ranked 20,408th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Satterthwaite?
- In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Satterthwaite identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Satterthwaite?
- Satterthwaite is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Satterthwaite getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,225 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,302 in 2010, up 6.3%.