How common is the surname Southwick?

3,671 people in the United States had the surname Southwick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,104 Americans. It ranked 8,917th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Southwick?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Southwick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Southwick?

Southwick is /ˈsʌðɪk/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Southwick getting more or less common?

More common. 3,560 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,671 in 2010, up 3.1%.

The surname Southwick

An English place surname, carried by 3,671 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈsʌðɪk/ 2 syllables Soundex S320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Southwick is more common than 94.5% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English sūþ (“south”) + wīċ (“village, specialized farm”). By surface analysis, south + -wick.

Southwick 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 3,671 people named Southwick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 84,104 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,560.

#8,917

rank among US surnames

3,671

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+3.1%

change since 2000 (was #8,524)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,911	Claus	3,674	84,035
#8,914	Sloane	3,673	84,058
#8,916	Scheller	3,672	84,081
#8,917	Freer	3,671	84,104
#8,920	Kersten	3,669	84,150
#8,923	Klingler	3,668	84,173

Who is named Southwick

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

96% of people named Southwick identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Southwick

Shadwick

Southwick has the Soundex code S320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S320.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Southwick come from?: From Old English sūþ (“south”) + wīċ (“village, specialized farm”). By surface analysis, south + -wick.
How common is the surname Southwick?: 3,671 people in the United States had the surname Southwick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,104 Americans. It ranked 8,917th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Southwick?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Southwick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Southwick?: Southwick is /ˈsʌðɪk/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Southwick?: Southwick is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Southwick getting more or less common?: More common. 3,560 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,671 in 2010, up 3.1%.