Explore the Family Name Ingoldsby

The meaning of Ingoldsby

1. English: habitational name from Ingoldsby (Lincolnshire). The placename derives from the Old Norse personal name Ingiald (genitive Ingialdes) + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead, village’. 2. Irish: adopted for Mac an Ghallóglaigh (see Gallogly) by mistranslation of gallóglach ‘foreign warrior’ or ‘galloglass’ as ‘English’. This gave rise to English and Englishby to form Ingoldsby by assimilation.

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How common is the last name Ingoldsby in the United States?

According to data from the Decennial U.S. Census, the popularity of the surname Ingoldsby has shown an increase between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, Ingoldsby was the 66,676th most popular surname, while by 2010 it had risen to the 63,698th position, indicating a change of 4.47 percent. This rise in popularity is also reflected in the number of people carrying this name, with a count of 277 in 2000 rising to 313 in 2010, registering a 13 percent growth.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#66,676	#63,698	4.47%
Count	277	313	13%
Proportion per 100k	0.1	0.11	10%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Ingoldsby

Focusing on ethnicity, the Decennial U.S. Census data reveals that the majority of individuals with the surname Ingoldsby identified as White in both 2000 and 2010, though the percentage decreased from 98.19 to 93.61 over the decade. There were no reported instances of this surname among Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, or American Indian and Alaskan Native ethnicities during both census years. However, there appears to be an emergence of Ingoldsbys identifying with two or more races and Hispanic ethnic groups in 2010, where they represented 2.24 percent and 2.56 percent of Ingoldsbys respectively.

	2000	2010	Change
White	98.19%	93.61%	-4.66%
Hispanic	0%	2.56%	0%
Two or More Races	0%	2.24%	0%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%