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    The surname Turnham

    An English place surname, carried by 332 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T655

    Turnham: #60,636 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Turnham #60,636, 332 people Turnham: #60,636 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Turnham #60,636, 332 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Turnham is more common than 62.6% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname, from Old English trun (“circular”) + hamm (“enclosure”) or hām (“village, hamlet”).

    Turnham 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 332 people named Turnham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 929,956 Americans. That is down 9.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 365.

    #60,636
    rank among US surnames
    332
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -9%
    change since 2000 (was #53,191)

    Who is named Turnham

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

    95% of people named Turnham identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Turnham

    Turnham has the Soundex code T655, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T655.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Turnham come from?
    Habitational surname, from Old English trun (“circular”) + hamm (“enclosure”) or hām (“village, hamlet”).
    How common is the surname Turnham?
    332 people in the United States had the surname Turnham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 929,956 Americans. It ranked 60,636th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Turnham?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Turnham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Turnham?
    Turnham is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Turnham getting more or less common?
    Less common. 365 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 332 in 2010, down 9.0%.