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    The surname Aamodt

    A Norwegian place surname, carried by 769 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex A530

    Aamodt: #30,390 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Aamodt #30,390, 769 people Aamodt: #30,390 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Aamodt #30,390, 769 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Aamodt is more common than 81.3% of them.

    Origin

    Norwegian origin

    Borrowed from Norwegian Aamodt, a topographic surname from åmot (“confluence of two rivers”).

    Aamodt is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 31 Norwegian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 769 people named Aamodt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 401,490 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 766.

    #30,390
    rank among US surnames
    769
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #29,142)

    Who is named Aamodt

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Aamodt identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Aamot
    • Aamoth

    Surnames that sound like Aamodt

    Aamodt has the Soundex code A530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A530.

    Other Norwegian surnames

    All 31 Norwegian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Aamodt come from?
    Borrowed from Norwegian Aamodt, a topographic surname from åmot (“confluence of two rivers”).
    How common is the surname Aamodt?
    769 people in the United States had the surname Aamodt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 401,490 Americans. It ranked 30,390th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Aamodt?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Aamodt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Aamodt?
    Aamodt is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Aamodt getting more or less common?
    More common. 766 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 769 in 2010, up 0.4%.
    What are other spellings of Aamodt?
    Aamot and Aamoth.