How common is the surname Southworth?

4,783 people in the United States had the surname Southworth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,551 Americans. It ranked 7,004th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Southworth?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Southworth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Southworth?

E. D. E. N. Southworth, American writer (1819–1899).

Where is the surname Southworth most common?

Wikidata records people named Southworth in the United States.

Is the surname Southworth getting more or less common?

More common. 4,750 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,783 in 2010, up 0.7%.

The surname Southworth

An English place surname, carried by 4,783 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S363

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Southworth is more common than 95.7% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from a minor place in Cheshire, from Old English sūþ (“south”) + worþ (“enclosure”).

Southworth 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 4,783 people named Southworth in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 64,551 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,750.

#7,004

rank among US surnames

4,783

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+0.7%

change since 2000 (was #6,580)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,998	Nicely	4,789	64,470
#6,999	Tyndall	4,786	64,510
#7,001	Fulk	4,785	64,524
#7,004	Southworth	4,783	64,551
#7,005	Sheehy	4,782	64,564
#7,006	Gwin	4,781	64,578

Who is named Southworth

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

96% of people named Southworth identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Southworths

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

E. D. E. N. Southworth
American writer (1819–1899)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Sudworth

Surnames that sound like Southworth

Southworth has the Soundex code S363, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S363.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Southworth come from?: Habitational surname from a minor place in Cheshire, from Old English sūþ (“south”) + worþ (“enclosure”).
How common is the surname Southworth?: 4,783 people in the United States had the surname Southworth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,551 Americans. It ranked 7,004th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Southworth?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Southworth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Southworth?: E. D. E. N. Southworth, American writer (1819–1899).
Where is the surname Southworth most common?: Wikidata records people named Southworth in the United States.
What type of surname is Southworth?: Southworth is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Southworth getting more or less common?: More common. 4,750 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,783 in 2010, up 0.7%.
What are other spellings of Southworth?: Sudworth.