# Single (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/single/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 519 |
| US rank (2010) | 41,886 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 594,885 people |
| Change since 2000 | -13.6% (601 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Old English sengel (“brushwood; burnt clearing”), a topographic surname for someone who lived by a brushwood.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Single in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 88% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |

## Similar surnames

Singley, Singleton, Singletary, Swingle, Shinkle, Shingleton, Sinkler, Singhal, Shingler, Singleterry, Sinclair, Sanmiguel.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.