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    The surname Sudlow

    An English place surname, carried by 452 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S340

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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). Sudlow is more common than 71% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from a lost place in Cheshire, from Old English sūþ (“south”) + hlǣw (“mountain, mound, hill”).

    Sudlow 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 452 people named Sudlow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 683,065 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 399.

    #47,006
    rank among US surnames
    452
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.3%
    change since 2000 (was #49,471)

    Who is named Sudlow

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

    85% of people named Sudlow identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sudlow

    Sudlow has the Soundex code S340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S340.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sudlow come from?
    Habitational surname from a lost place in Cheshire, from Old English sūþ (“south”) + hlǣw (“mountain, mound, hill”).
    How common is the surname Sudlow?
    452 people in the United States had the surname Sudlow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 683,065 Americans. It ranked 47,006th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sudlow?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Sudlow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Sudlow?
    Sudlow is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Sudlow getting more or less common?
    More common. 399 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 452 in 2010, up 13%.