Higginbotham

Higginbotham is the 2,662nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,224 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 22,600.

By the numbers

People: 13,224
Rank: 2,662nd
How common: 1 in 22,600
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, now called Oakenbottom, from Old English ǣċen (“oaken”) + botm (“bottom; broad valley”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.4%
Black, not Hispanic 6.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Higginbotham

Joan Higginbotham (born 1964)American engineer and NASA astronaut
Danny Higginbotham (born 1978)British association football player

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

Surnames like Higginbotham

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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.