The surname Attaway
A surname, carried by 3,534 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex A300
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,534 people named Attaway in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 87,364 Americans. That is up 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,363.
#9,222
rank among US surnames
3,534
people in 2010
1.2
per 100,000 Americans
+5.1%
change since 2000 (was #8,938)
Who is named Attaway
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
78% of people named Attaway identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 78%
- Black (not Hispanic) 16%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Attaway
Attaway has the Soundex code A300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A300.
Questions
- How common is the surname Attaway?
- 3,534 people in the United States had the surname Attaway in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,364 Americans. It ranked 9,222nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Attaway?
- In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Attaway identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Attaway getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,363 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,534 in 2010, up 5.1%.