# Strickland (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/strickland/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 67,769 |
| US rank (2010) | 494 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 4,556 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.0% (65,814 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from the villages of Strickland Ketel and Strickland Roger, from Old English stirc (“bullock”) + land.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Strickland in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 76% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 17% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 2.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Strickland in the United States, Australia and Malta.

## People named Strickland

- Shirley Strickland, Australian hurdler and sprinter
- KaDee Strickland, American actress
- Mabel Strickland, Anglo-Maltese journalist, newspaper proprietor and politician (1899-1988)
- Ted Strickland, American politician (born 1941)
- Sean Strickland, American mixed martial artist
- David Strickland, American actor (1969–1999)
- Gail Strickland, American actress
- Rod Strickland, American basketball player and coach
- Swerve Strickland, American professional wrestler
- William Strickland, American architect (1788–1854)
- Keith Strickland, American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, composer
- Marilyn Strickland, American politician from Washington State

and 3 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Strickler, Stricklin, Stricker, Struck, Strack, Strock, Storck, Striegel, Strick, Starck, Striker, Stark.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.