Eccles
Eccles is the 9,981st most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,085 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 96,900.
By the numbers
- People
- 3,085
- Rank
- 9,981st
- How common
- 1 in 96,900
- Per 100,000
- 1.0
Where the name comes from
From Middle English Eccles, from Old English *Eccles, borrowed from pre-cel-bry-pro *eglēs (“church”), whence cel-bry-pro *egluɨs. The sound change *ē > *uɨ is regular in Proto-Brythonic, but had evidently not yet occurred when place-name instances of *eglēs in the north were being borrowed into Old English; Jackson (1953) dates this change to the late 7th century.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Eccles described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Eccles
- John Carew Eccles (1903–1997)Australian neurophysiologist
- Marriner Stoddard Eccles (1890–1977)American economist and banker
- John Eccles (1668–1735)British composer
- William Eccles (1875–1966)British physicist
People named Eccles with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.