How common is the surname Scoville?

2,812 people in the United States had the surname Scoville in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,796 Americans. It ranked 11,241st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Scoville?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Scoville identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Scoville?

Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist (1865–1942).

Where is the surname Scoville most common?

Wikidata records people named Scoville in the United States.

Is the surname Scoville getting more or less common?

More common. 2,798 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,812 in 2010, up 0.5%.

The surname Scoville

A Norman place surname, carried by 2,812 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S140

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scoville is more common than 93.1% of them.

Origin

Norman origin

English surname of Norman origin, from the town of Escoville, in Normandy.

Scoville is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 128 Norman surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,812 people named Scoville in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 109,796 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,798.

#11,241

rank among US surnames

2,812

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+0.5%

change since 2000 (was #10,519)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,236	Walkup	2,813	109,757
#11,241	Scoville	2,812	109,796
#11,248	Hemenway	2,811	109,835
#11,250	Stucker	2,810	109,874

Who is named Scoville

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

95% of people named Scoville identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Scovilles

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Wilbur Scoville
American pharmacist (1865–1942)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Scovil
Scovill

Surnames that sound like Scoville

Scoville has the Soundex code S140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S140.

Other Norman surnames

All 128 Norman surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Scoville come from?: English surname of Norman origin, from the town of Escoville, in Normandy.
How common is the surname Scoville?: 2,812 people in the United States had the surname Scoville in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,796 Americans. It ranked 11,241st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Scoville?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Scoville identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Scoville?: Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist (1865–1942).
Where is the surname Scoville most common?: Wikidata records people named Scoville in the United States.
What type of surname is Scoville?: Scoville is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Scoville getting more or less common?: More common. 2,798 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,812 in 2010, up 0.5%.
What are other spellings of Scoville?: Scovil and Scovill.