How common is the surname Amend?

1,789 people in the United States had the surname Amend in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,580 Americans. It ranked 16,161st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Amend?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Amend identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Amend getting more or less common?

More common. 1,720 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,789 in 2010, up 4.0%.

The surname Amend

A surname, carried by 1,789 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex A553

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Amend is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,789 people named Amend in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,580 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,720.

#16,161

rank among US surnames

1,789

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+4%

change since 2000 (was #15,598)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,157	Besser	1,790	172,484
#16,161	Amend	1,789	172,580
#16,166	Hayek	1,788	172,676

Who is named Amend

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

94% of people named Amend identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
Two or more races 1.3%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Amend

Amend has the Soundex code A553, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A553.

Questions

How common is the surname Amend?: 1,789 people in the United States had the surname Amend in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,580 Americans. It ranked 16,161st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Amend?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Amend identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Amend getting more or less common?: More common. 1,720 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,789 in 2010, up 4.0%.