How common is the surname Truesdale?

4,757 people in the United States had the surname Truesdale in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,903 Americans. It ranked 7,038th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Truesdale getting more or less common?

More common. 4,432 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,757 in 2010, up 7.3%.

The surname Truesdale

A surname, carried by 4,757 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T623

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Truesdale is more common than 95.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,757 people named Truesdale in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 64,903 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,432.

#7,038

rank among US surnames

4,757

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+7.3%

change since 2000 (was #6,972)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,030	Stotts	4,760	64,863
#7,031	Castorena	4,759	64,876
#7,035	Campuzano	4,758	64,890
#7,038	Truesdale	4,757	64,903
#7,042	Kissel	4,756	64,917
#7,044	Gandara	4,754	64,944
#7,046	Aubrey	4,753	64,958

Who is named Truesdale

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

58% of people named Truesdale identified as white (not Hispanic), 37% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 58%
Black (not Hispanic) 37%
Two or more races 1.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Truesdale

Truesdale has the Soundex code T623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T623.

Questions

How common is the surname Truesdale?: 4,757 people in the United States had the surname Truesdale in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,903 Americans. It ranked 7,038th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Truesdale?: In the 2010 Census, 58% of people named Truesdale identified as white (not Hispanic), and 37% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Truesdale getting more or less common?: More common. 4,432 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,757 in 2010, up 7.3%.