Oldham

12,394 people in the United States were counted with the surname Oldham in the 2020 census, making it the 2,826th most common in the country. That is about one person in 24,100.

By the numbers

People: 12,394
Rank: 2,826th
How common: 1 in 24,100
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a place name

Recorded as Aldehulme in the Domesday Book, the English toponym is named with Old English eald (“old”) + Old Norse holmr (“holm, islet”). Or else, the first element may be Old English Alda, a male given name, or the xcb/cel-bry-pro equivalent of Welsh allt.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.5%
Black, not Hispanic 9.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Oldham

Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914–2015)Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist
Andrew Loog Oldham (born 1944)English record producer, talent manager, impresario and author
Will Oldham (born 1970)American singer-songwriter and actor
Megan Oldham (born 2001)Canadian freestyle skier
Richard Dixon Oldham (1858–1936)British geologist
Sam Oldham (born 1993)British gymnast

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

Surnames like Oldham

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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.