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The surname Althouse

A surname, carried by 2,039 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex A432

Althouse: #14,599 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Althouse #14,599, 2,039 people Althouse: #14,599 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Althouse #14,599, 2,039 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Althouse is more common than 91% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,039 people named Althouse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 151,420 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,047.

#14,599
rank among US surnames
2,039
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
-0.4%
change since 2000 (was #13,604)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#14,591Tarlton2,040151,346
#14,599Vartanian2,039151,420
#14,604Matsuda2,038151,494

Who is named Althouse

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

96% of people named Althouse identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
  • Two or more races 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Althouse

Althouse has the Soundex code A432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A432.

Questions

How common is the surname Althouse?
2,039 people in the United States had the surname Althouse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 151,420 Americans. It ranked 14,599th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Althouse?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Althouse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Althouse getting more or less common?
Less common. 2,047 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,039 in 2010, down 0.4%.