Last Name ELDER

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Nickaname: The elder. The usual form in the Yorkshire Poll Tax is Senior, and this has become one of the strongly established last names of that county.

Origin	English, Scottish, Jewish, Native American, Irish, Zimbabwean

Rank	1,118 (2000 US census)	1,005 (1990 US census)

Count	28,783 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

80.67%, or 23219 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
15.68%, or 4513 total occurrences, as black,
0.38%, or 109 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.44%, or 127 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.48%, or 426 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.36%, or 391 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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