The surname Settle
An English place surname, carried by 8,202 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S340
Origin
English origin
From Old English setl (“sitting, residence”).
Settle 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 8,202 people named Settle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 37,643 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,074.
Who is named Settle
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
83% of people named Settle identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 83%
- Black (not Hispanic) 11%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Settle has the Soundex code S340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S340.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Settle come from?
- From Old English setl (“sitting, residence”).
- How common is the surname Settle?
- 8,202 people in the United States had the surname Settle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 37,643 Americans. It ranked 4,329th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Settle?
- In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Settle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Settle?
- Settle is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Settle getting more or less common?
- More common. 8,074 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,202 in 2010, up 1.6%.