How common is the surname Stringham?

2,242 people in the United States had the surname Stringham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 137,710 Americans. It ranked 13,531st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Stringham?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Stringham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Stringham getting more or less common?

More common. 2,202 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,242 in 2010, up 1.8%.

The surname Stringham

A place surname, carried by 2,242 people in the United States.

2 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). Stringham is more common than 91.7% of them.

Origin

Probably a habitational surname from the village of Strensham, in Worcestershire.

Stringham 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 2,242 people named Stringham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 137,710 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,202.

#13,531

rank among US surnames

2,242

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+1.8%

change since 2000 (was #12,822)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,525	Peralez	2,243	137,648
#13,531	Stringham	2,242	137,710
#13,536	Seiber	2,241	137,771

Who is named Stringham

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

95% of people named Stringham identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

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 Stringham

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

Questions

Where does the surname Stringham come from?: Probably a habitational surname from the village of Strensham, in Worcestershire.
How common is the surname Stringham?: 2,242 people in the United States had the surname Stringham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 137,710 Americans. It ranked 13,531st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Stringham?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Stringham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Stringham?: Stringham is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Stringham getting more or less common?: More common. 2,202 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,242 in 2010, up 1.8%.