How common is the surname Auten?

2,707 people in the United States had the surname Auten in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,055 Americans. It ranked 11,597th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Auten?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Auten identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Auten getting more or less common?

More common. 2,597 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,707 in 2010, up 4.2%.

The surname Auten

A surname, carried by 2,707 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex A350

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Auten is more common than 92.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,707 people named Auten in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 114,055 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,597.

#11,597

rank among US surnames

2,707

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+4.2%

change since 2000 (was #11,195)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,589	Tomko	2,710	113,928
#11,592	Knipp	2,709	113,970
#11,595	Bump	2,708	114,012
#11,597	Ranney	2,707	114,055
#11,603	Drane	2,706	114,097
#11,605	Taub	2,705	114,139

Who is named Auten

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

92% of people named Auten identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
Two or more races 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Auten

Aten

Auten has the Soundex code A350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A350.

Questions

How common is the surname Auten?: 2,707 people in the United States had the surname Auten in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,055 Americans. It ranked 11,597th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Auten?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Auten identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Auten getting more or less common?: More common. 2,597 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,707 in 2010, up 4.2%.