Settle

7,495 people in the United States were counted with the surname Settle in the 2020 census, making it the 4,587th most common in the country. That is about one person in 39,900.

By the numbers

People: 7,495
Rank: 4,587th
How common: 1 in 39,900
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English setl (“sitting, residence”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.1%
Black, not Hispanic 10.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Surnames like Settle

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.