Last Name ILLINGSWORTH

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Meaning Local: Of Illingworth, a chapelry in the parish of Halifax, West Riding Yorks. The form Illingworth is the correct one (not Illingsworth), implying not the 'worth' or farmstead in some local ingle or nook, but the 'worth' or farmstead of Ingle the original settle. Ingle is a Sacndinavian first name.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 126,400 (2000 US census)
Count 125 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 95.2%, or 119 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • undisclosed % as two or more races, and
  • 4%, or 5 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


English surnames

 English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...

Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

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