Henshaw

Henshaw is the 7,174th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,493 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 66,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,493
Rank: 7,174th
How common: 1 in 66,500
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the Old English personal name *Heþin + -s- + healh (“corner, angle, nook”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.3%
Black, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Henshaw

Kate Henshaw (born 1971)Nigerian actress
Henry Wetherbee Henshaw (1850–1930)American ornithologist
Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1869–1937)Canadian botanist and writer

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

Surnames like Henshaw

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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.