The Householder surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,067 people carried this name — #8,153 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 72,500 people counted. That is up 1% from 4,024 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Householder surname

As an English and Welsh surname

Bardsley classes it as an occupational name: ‘the householder’.

His entry covers Householder and Housekeeper.

From Charles W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances (London: Henry Frowde, 1901), p. 402 · public domain.

In print

Householder in American newspapers,
1918.

Newspaper page from The White Mountain Echo carrying the name Householder
The White Mountain Echo 1918-08-03

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Householder in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1970s.

502 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Householder. The most, 125, date from the 1920s. Queensland has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in the Australian Capital Territory, at 3.5 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Queensland 170
New South Wales 97
Victoria 73
Tasmania 50
ACT (Canberra) 48
South Australia 32
Western Australia 30
Northern Territory 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Householder.

Who carried it

People named Householder,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Alston Scott Householder
    Alston Scott Householder 1904–1993 · mathematician
  • George Householder d. 1906 · politician
  • Charlie Householder 1854–1913 · baseball player
  • Ed Householder 1869–1924 · baseball player
  • Fred Householder 1913–1994 · writer

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Householder,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States191 records

191 records of the Householder name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 140
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 45
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 2
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 1
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Robert R. Householder

    Born 1922 in Ohio. Enlisted 1942 at Columbus; bank clerk from Mushingum County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1997, buried at Rex Kieffer, Brownsville, Ohio.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Richard Wayne Householder

    Born 1944; from Somerset, Ohio. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1969 in Binh Duong, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Carl A. Householder

    U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. Born 1933, died 2000; buried at Mauston Cemetery, Wisconsin.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 191 records for Householder in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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