The surname Threlkeld
A Norse place surname, carried by 2,237 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T642
Origin
Norse origin
The place name is from Old Norse þræll (“serf, slave”) + kelda (“spring, well”).
Threlkeld is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,237 people named Threlkeld in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 138,018 Americans. That is down 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,273.
Who is named Threlkeld
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
87% of people named Threlkeld identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 87%
- Black (not Hispanic) 8.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Threlkeld
Threlkeld has the Soundex code T642, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T642.
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Threlkeld come from?
- The place name is from Old Norse þræll (“serf, slave”) + kelda (“spring, well”).
- How common is the surname Threlkeld?
- 2,237 people in the United States had the surname Threlkeld in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 138,018 Americans. It ranked 13,551st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Threlkeld?
- In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Threlkeld identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Threlkeld?
- Threlkeld is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Threlkeld getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,273 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,237 in 2010, down 1.6%.