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The surname Standen

An English place surname, carried by 675 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S353

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Standen is more common than 79.2% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname, perhaps from Old English stān (“stone”) + dene (“valley”).

Standen 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 675 people named Standen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 457,401 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 659.

#33,731
rank among US surnames
675
people in 2010
0.2
per 100,000 Americans
+2.4%
change since 2000 (was #32,823)

Who is named Standen

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

95% of people named Standen identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
  • Two or more races 1.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Standen

Standen has the Soundex code S353, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S353.

Other English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Standen come from?
Habitational surname, perhaps from Old English stān (“stone”) + dene (“valley”).
How common is the surname Standen?
675 people in the United States had the surname Standen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 457,401 Americans. It ranked 33,731st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Standen?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Standen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Standen?
Standen is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Standen getting more or less common?
More common. 659 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 675 in 2010, up 2.4%.