Eggleston

At the 2020 census, 9,630 Americans bore the surname Eggleston — 3,602nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 31,000.

By the numbers

People: 9,630
Rank: 3,602nd
How common: 1 in 31,000
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the Old English personal name Eċġwulf, which is composed of the elements eċġ (“edge”) and wulf (“wolf”), + -s- + tūn (“settlement”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Eggleston described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 76.2%
Black, not Hispanic 16.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Eggleston

William Eggleston (born 1939)American photographer
Ralph Eggleston (1965–2022)American animator
Edward Eggleston (1837–1902)Novelist, historian, clergyman

People named Eggleston with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Eggleston

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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.