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Southworth

At the 2020 census, 4,657 Americans bore the surname Southworth — 6,956th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 64,200.

By the numbers

People
4,657
Rank
6,956th
How common
1 in 64,200
Per 100,000
1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from a minor place in Cheshire, from Old English sūþ (“south”) + worþ (“enclosure”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Surnames like Southworth

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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.