How common is the surname Sidebottom?

1,394 people in the United States had the surname Sidebottom in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,482 Americans. It ranked 19,390th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Sidebottom getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,406 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,394 in 2010, down 0.9%.

The surname Sidebottom

An English place surname, carried by 1,394 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex S313

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sidebottom is more common than 88% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from a place in Cheshire, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”) + botm (“bottom, ground”).

Sidebottom 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 1,394 people named Sidebottom in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,482 Americans. That is down 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,406.

#19,390

rank among US surnames

1,394

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-0.9%

change since 2000 (was #18,230)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,390	Rifkin	1,394	221,482
#19,398	Zaborowski	1,393	221,641

Who is named Sidebottom

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

95% of people named Sidebottom identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as two or more races and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Two or more races 1.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Sidebotham

Sidebottom has the Soundex code S313, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S313.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Sidebottom come from?: Habitational surname from a place in Cheshire, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”) + botm (“bottom, ground”).
How common is the surname Sidebottom?: 1,394 people in the United States had the surname Sidebottom in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,482 Americans. It ranked 19,390th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sidebottom?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Sidebottom identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as two or more races.
What type of surname is Sidebottom?: Sidebottom is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Sidebottom getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,406 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,394 in 2010, down 0.9%.
What are other spellings of Sidebottom?: Sidebotham.