Isham

At the 2020 census, 3,970 Americans bore the surname Isham — 8,005th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 75,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,970
Rank: 8,005th
How common: 1 in 75,300
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the name of the River Ise + Old English hām (“homestead”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.1%
Black, not Hispanic 6.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 6.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Isham

Mark Isham (born 1951)American musician and film composer
Wayne Isham (born 1958)American director

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

Surnames like Isham

Ishmael

Also a first name

Isham has been given to 615 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1922. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.