Last Name URQUHART

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Meaning Local: Of Urquhart. There are four places called Urquhart in the shires of Moray, Inverness, and Ross. The family are traced to Galleroch de Urchart, who lived temp. Alex. II. His descendants were hereditary sheriffs of Cromarty.
Local: from the castle of Urquhart, in the parish of Urquhart, Elginshire. The family are descended from Gallerouch Urchard. William Urchard of Cromarty was heritable Sheriff of that shire.
Origin English, Scottish, Irish, Creole, South african

Rank 7,381 (2000 US census) 6,945 (1990 US census)
Count 4,163 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 75.33%, or 3136 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 21.16%, or 881 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.6%, or 25 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.29%, or 12 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.49%, or 62 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.13%, or 47 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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