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The surname Turnbough

A surname, carried by 1,215 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T651

Turnbough: #21,495 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Turnbough #21,495, 1,215 people Turnbough: #21,495 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Turnbough #21,495, 1,215 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Turnbough is more common than 86.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,215 people named Turnbough in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 254,112 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,220.

#21,495
rank among US surnames
1,215
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
-0.4%
change since 2000 (was #20,284)

Who is named Turnbough

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

80% of people named Turnbough identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 80%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 9.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.8%
  • Two or more races 4.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Turnbough

Turnbough has the Soundex code T651, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T651.

Questions

How common is the surname Turnbough?
1,215 people in the United States had the surname Turnbough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 254,112 Americans. It ranked 21,495th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Turnbough?
In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Turnbough identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Turnbough getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,220 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,215 in 2010, down 0.4%.