The surname Underhill
A place surname, carried by 6,839 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex U536
Origin
From under + hill, a topographic surname for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.
Underhill is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 6,839 people named Underhill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 45,145 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,747.
Who is named Underhill
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Underhill identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Underhill
Underhill has the Soundex code U536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code U536.
Questions
- Where does the surname Underhill come from?
- From under + hill, a topographic surname for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.
- How common is the surname Underhill?
- 6,839 people in the United States had the surname Underhill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 45,145 Americans. It ranked 5,119th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Underhill?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Underhill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Underhill?
- Underhill is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Underhill getting more or less common?
- More common. 6,747 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,839 in 2010, up 1.4%.