Last Name CARLILE

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Meaning	Local: Of Carlisle, the county town of Cumberland. The surname crossed the Border, the spelling undergoing slight changes. Still it is easy to see that Thomas Carlyle was born and brought up not very far from the city whence his ancestors originally sprang.

Origin	English, Native American, Irish

Rank	6,887 (2000 US census)	7,350 (1990 US census)

Count	4,498 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

92.73%, or 4171 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
1.22%, or 55 total occurrences, as black,
0.38%, or 17 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.85%, or 83 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.93%, or 87 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.89%, or 85 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Shortest baby names

We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

Please, send us any information you may have about addition two character first names and especially ...