How common is the surname Stringfellow?

4,730 people in the United States had the surname Stringfellow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,274 Americans. It ranked 7,078th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Stringfellow?

Savanté Stringfellow, American long jumper, followed by Ken Stringfellow.

Where is the surname Stringfellow most common?

Wikidata records people named Stringfellow in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Is the surname Stringfellow getting more or less common?

About as common. 4,728 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,730 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Stringfellow

An occupational surname, carried by 4,730 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S365

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stringfellow is more common than 95.6% of them.

Origin

A surname originating as an occupation for a stringer.

Stringfellow is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,730 people named Stringfellow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,274 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,728.

#7,078

rank among US surnames

4,730

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #6,613)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,073	Freitag	4,733	65,233
#7,074	Maynor	4,732	65,246
#7,075	Desilva	4,731	65,260
#7,078	Walley	4,730	65,274
#7,080	Silas	4,729	65,288

Who is named Stringfellow

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

71% of people named Stringfellow identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 71%
Black (not Hispanic) 23%
Two or more races 2.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Stringfellows

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Savanté Stringfellow
American long jumper, born 1978
Ken Stringfellow
American musician, born 1968
John Stringfellow
British aviation pioneer (1799–1883)
Douglas R. Stringfellow
American politician and fabulist. (1922–1966)
William Stringfellow
American theologian (1928–1985)

Notable Stringfellows come mostly from the United States (4) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Stringfellow

Stringfellow has the Soundex code S365, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S365.

Questions

How common is the surname Stringfellow?: 4,730 people in the United States had the surname Stringfellow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,274 Americans. It ranked 7,078th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Stringfellow?: In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Stringfellow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Stringfellow?: Savanté Stringfellow, American long jumper, followed by Ken Stringfellow.
Where is the surname Stringfellow most common?: Wikidata records people named Stringfellow in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
What type of surname is Stringfellow?: Stringfellow is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Stringfellow getting more or less common?: About as common. 4,728 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,730 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.