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The surname Scrivner

A surname, carried by 2,536 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S615

Scrivner: #12,264 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Scrivner #12,264, 2,536 people Scrivner: #12,264 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Scrivner #12,264, 2,536 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scrivner is more common than 92.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,536 people named Scrivner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,745 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,464.

#12,264
rank among US surnames
2,536
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+2.9%
change since 2000 (was #11,667)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#12,255Cabe2,538121,649
#12,261Starner2,537121,697
#12,264Lounsbury2,536121,745
#12,269Berggren2,535121,793

Who is named Scrivner

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

87% of people named Scrivner identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 87%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
  • Two or more races 2.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Scrivner

Scrivner has the Soundex code S615, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S615.

Questions

How common is the surname Scrivner?
2,536 people in the United States had the surname Scrivner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,745 Americans. It ranked 12,264th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Scrivner?
In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Scrivner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Scrivner getting more or less common?
More common. 2,464 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,536 in 2010, up 2.9%.