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    The surname Springfield

    A place surname, carried by 3,586 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S165

    Springfield: #9,112 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Springfield #9,112, 3,586 people Springfield: #9,112 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Springfield #9,112, 3,586 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Springfield is more common than 94.4% of them.

    Origin

    From spring + field.

    Springfield is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,586 people named Springfield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 86,097 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,421.

    #9,112
    rank among US surnames
    3,586
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.8%
    change since 2000 (was #8,818)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,104Pavon3,58986,026
    #9,108Wiest3,58886,049
    #9,112Springfield3,58686,097
    #9,113Vanhoose3,58586,121
    #9,114Sankey3,58486,146
    #9,117Privett3,58386,170
    #9,118Berard3,58286,194

    Who is named Springfield

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

    55% of people named Springfield identified as white (not Hispanic), 39% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 55%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 39%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Springfield

    Springfield has the Soundex code S165, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S165.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Springfield come from?
    From spring + field.
    How common is the surname Springfield?
    3,586 people in the United States had the surname Springfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 86,097 Americans. It ranked 9,112th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Springfield?
    In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Springfield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 39% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Springfield?
    Springfield is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Springfield getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,421 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,586 in 2010, up 4.8%.