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    The surname Arnott

    A place surname, carried by 2,394 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex A653

    Arnott: #12,861 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Arnott #12,861, 2,394 people Arnott: #12,861 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Arnott #12,861, 2,394 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Arnott is more common than 92.1% of them.

    Origin

    Scottish habitational surname, from a place called Arnot, near Kinross.

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

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,394 people named Arnott in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 128,966 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,326.

    #12,861
    rank among US surnames
    2,394
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.9%
    change since 2000 (was #12,266)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,856Cliff2,395128,913
    #12,861Hofmeister2,394128,966
    #12,865Wunder2,393129,020
    #12,869Buckwalter2,392129,074

    Who is named Arnott

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

    94% of people named Arnott identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Arnott

    Arnott has the Soundex code A653, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A653.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Arnott come from?
    Scottish habitational surname, from a place called Arnot, near Kinross.
    How common is the surname Arnott?
    2,394 people in the United States had the surname Arnott in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 128,966 Americans. It ranked 12,861st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Arnott?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Arnott identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Arnott?
    Arnott is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Arnott getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,326 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,394 in 2010, up 2.9%.