The Newcomer surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,263 people carried this name — #6,449 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 56,200 people counted. That is up 1% from 5,201 in 2000.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
30 families named Newcomer, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 206 people lived in those households, 6.9 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 5 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.
Families, by state
U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 255 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Newcomer in American newspapers,
1873–1889.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 157,142 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Newcomer in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1970s.
634 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Newcomer. The most, 124, date from the 1930s. New South Wales 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 Victoria, at 1.4 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Newcomer.
Who carried it
People named Newcomer,
with a public archive behind them.
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Benjamin Franklin Newcomer 1827–1901 · manager -
Henry C. Newcomer 1861–1952 · military personnel -
Francis Kosier Newcomer 1889–1967 · politician -
Nannie Newcomer 1855–1901
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Hattie Newcomer 1861–1942
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Gertrude Shannon Newcomer 1864–1921
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Newcomer,
in the records of 3 countries.
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 States288 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 200
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 57
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 16
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 8
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 4
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 2
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Ewing C. NewcomerBorn 1917 in Pennsylvania. Enlisted 1943 at Greensburg; farm hand from Fayette County. U.S. Army veteran; died 1997, buried at Sylvan Heights Cemetery, Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record James Henry NewcomerBorn 1952; from Cleveland, Ohio. U.S. Army, heavy construction equipment operator; died in an accident 1971 in Binh Dinh, South Vietnam.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Eliza NewcomerArrived at New York in 1855 aboard the Isaac Wright from Liverpool, aged 20; servant. From Ireland.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
Showing 3 of 288 records for Newcomer 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) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · 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); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
Australia5 records
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Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Arthur NewcomerSailed from Victoria in 1874 aboard the Great Britain, bound for Liverpool, aged 21.
Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record G. H. T. NewcomerArrived in Victoria in 1902 aboard the Britannia, aged 24.
Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
Showing 2 of 5 records for Newcomer in Australia.
Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
Netherlands1 record
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Example: civil register, 1880 Death record Elsa NewcomerDied 1964 in Schaesberg, aged 42.
Open Archives, Regionaal Historisch Centrum Limburg (CC BY 4.0)
Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Newcomer.
- Neville 11,739 · U.S. census
- Nevins 5,052 · U.S. census
- New 11,903 · U.S. census
- Newberry 13,482 · U.S. census
- Newby 11,483 · U.S. census
- Newcomb 14,292 · U.S. census
- Newell 32,909 · U.S. census
- Newhouse 6,471 · U.S. census
- Newkirk 10,620 · U.S. census
- Newland 7,491 · U.S. census
- Newman 101,931 · U.S. census
- Newsom 11,218 · U.S. census
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