The Surratt surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,539 people carried this name — #7,343 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 64,900 people counted. That is up 1% from 4,495 in 2000.

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In print

Surratt in American newspapers,
1865–1867.

Newspaper page from Dollar Weekly Mirror And New Hampshire Journal Of Agriculture carrying the name Surratt
Dollar Weekly Mirror And New Hampshire Journal Of Agriculture 1865-05-20
Newspaper page from New Hampshire Statesman carrying the name Surratt
New Hampshire Statesman 1867-05-24
Newspaper page from Ellsworth American carrying the name Surratt
Ellsworth American 1865-07-14

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 23,454 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Surratt in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1950s.

409 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Surratt. The most, 291, date from the 1860s. 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 Queensland, at 1.4 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 155
Victoria 94
Queensland 77
Tasmania 40
South Australia 34
Western Australia 7

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

Who carried it

People named Surratt,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Mary Surratt
    Mary Surratt 1820–1865 · lawyer
  • John Surratt
    John Surratt 1844–1916 · spy

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 Surratt,
in the records of 2 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 States215 records

215 records of the Surratt name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 153
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 56
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 4
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 1
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Zollie A. D. Surratt

    Born 1924 in Texas. Enlisted 1943 at Fresno, California; driver. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; died 1990, buried at Willamette National Cemetery, Oregon.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Dwight E. Surratt

    U.S. Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War. Born 1938, died 1996; buried at Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Oklahoma.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Erika Surratt

    Born 1922 in Gelsenkirc, Germany. Entered the United States at New York in 1949. Listed in the U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)

Showing 3 of 215 records for Surratt in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Canada1 record

1 record of the Surratt name in Canada Nova Scotia Archives name indexes
  1. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Birth record Philamon Surratt

    Born 1867 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.

Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

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