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The surname Trosclair

A German surname, carried by 2,517 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T624

Trosclair: #12,351 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Trosclair #12,351, 2,517 people Trosclair: #12,351 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Trosclair #12,351, 2,517 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Trosclair is more common than 92.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

Altered form of German Troxler.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,517 people named Trosclair in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 122,664 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,426.

#12,351
rank among US surnames
2,517
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+3.8%
change since 2000 (was #11,827)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#12,348Timmins2,519122,567
#12,350Laubach2,518122,615
#12,351Lobdell2,517122,664
#12,357Desrochers2,516122,713

Who is named Trosclair

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

83% of people named Trosclair identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.2% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

  • White (not Hispanic) 83%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 8.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 4.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
  • Two or more races 1.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Trosclair

Trosclair has the Soundex code T624, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T624.

Other German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Trosclair come from?
Altered form of German Troxler.
How common is the surname Trosclair?
2,517 people in the United States had the surname Trosclair in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 122,664 Americans. It ranked 12,351st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Trosclair?
In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Trosclair identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Trosclair getting more or less common?
More common. 2,426 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,517 in 2010, up 3.8%.