The surname Straw
An English occupational surname, carried by 3,962 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex S360
Origin
English origin
From Middle English straw, as a nickname for a thin person or one with straw-coloured hair, or an occupational name for a dealer in straw.
Straw is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
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 3,962 people named Straw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 77,927 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,887.
Who is named Straw
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Straw identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.2%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Straw has the Soundex code S360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S360.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Straw come from?
- From Middle English straw, as a nickname for a thin person or one with straw-coloured hair, or an occupational name for a dealer in straw.
- How common is the surname Straw?
- 3,962 people in the United States had the surname Straw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,927 Americans. It ranked 8,356th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Straw?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Straw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Straw?
- Straw is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Straw getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,887 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,962 in 2010, up 1.9%.