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    The surname Alphin

    A Scottish Gaelic surname, carried by 1,075 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex A415

    Alphin: #23,604 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Alphin #23,604, 1,075 people Alphin: #23,604 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Alphin #23,604, 1,075 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Alphin is more common than 85.5% of them.

    Origin

    Scottish Gaelic origin

    Reduced form of McAlpine.

    One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,075 people named Alphin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 287,205 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,031.

    #23,604
    rank among US surnames
    1,075
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.3%
    change since 2000 (was #23,128)

    Who is named Alphin

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

    94% of people named Alphin identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial 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

    • Allphin

    Surnames that sound like Alphin

    Alphin has the Soundex code A415, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A415.

    Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

    All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Alphin come from?
    Reduced form of McAlpine.
    How common is the surname Alphin?
    1,075 people in the United States had the surname Alphin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 287,205 Americans. It ranked 23,604th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Alphin?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Alphin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Alphin getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,031 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,075 in 2010, up 4.3%.
    What are other spellings of Alphin?
    Allphin.