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    The surname Arth

    A German surname, carried by 708 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex A630

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Arth is more common than 80% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    * As a German surname, variant of Art, for which see Artman, or otherwise related to Ort (“point, end”). * The place in Switzerland is from Middle High German ze Arth, from Old High German Arta, which is said mean to something like "plowed land," from an obsolete derivative of Proto-Germanic *arþrą (“plow”). However, compare *ardiz (“nature, character”), the source of Old English eard (“homeland, dwelling, land”).

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 708 people named Arth in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 436,081 Americans. That is down 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 724.

    #32,485
    rank among US surnames
    708
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.2%
    change since 2000 (was #30,443)

    Who is named Arth

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

    95% of people named Arth identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Arth

    Arth has the Soundex code A630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A630.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Arth come from?
    * As a German surname, variant of Art, for which see Artman, or otherwise related to Ort (“point, end”). * The place in Switzerland is from Middle High German ze Arth, from Old High German Arta, which is said mean to something like "plowed land," from an obsolete derivative of Proto-Germanic…
    How common is the surname Arth?
    708 people in the United States had the surname Arth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 436,081 Americans. It ranked 32,485th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Arth?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Arth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Arth getting more or less common?
    Less common. 724 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 708 in 2010, down 2.2%.