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    The surname Belt

    A place surname, carried by 8,737 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B430

    Belt: #4,065 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Belt #4,065, 8,737 people Belt: #4,065 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Belt #4,065, 8,737 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Belt is more common than 97.5% of them.

    Origin

    * As an English and north/Low German surname, from the noun belt. * As a German surname, short form of the old Germanic name Baldher, composed of *balþ (“bold”) + *hari (“army”). Compare Belter. * Also as a north/Low German surname, from the place name Beelte, a small town in Giesen. * As a Dutch surname Van den Belt, from the noun belt (“low hill”).

    Belt 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 8,737 people named Belt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 35,338 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,422.

    #4,065
    rank among US surnames
    8,737
    people in 2010
    3.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #3,874)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,056Munn8,75135,281
    #4,057Iniguez8,75035,285
    #4,058Marquardt8,74935,289
    #4,059Szymanski8,74835,293
    #4,060Scully8,74735,297
    #4,061Conte8,74435,309
    #4,062Provost8,74235,317

    Who is named Belt

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

    81% of people named Belt identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Belts

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Brandon Belt
      American baseball player, born 1988

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Belt

    Belt has the Soundex code B430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B430.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Belt come from?
    * As an English and north/Low German surname, from the noun belt. * As a German surname, short form of the old Germanic name Baldher, composed of *balþ (“bold”) + *hari (“army”). Compare Belter. * Also as a north/Low German surname, from the place name Beelte, a small town in Giesen. * As a Dutch…
    How common is the surname Belt?
    8,737 people in the United States had the surname Belt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,338 Americans. It ranked 4,065th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Belt?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Belt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Belt?
    Brandon Belt, American baseball player.
    Where is the surname Belt most common?
    Wikidata records people named Belt in the United States.
    What type of surname is Belt?
    Belt is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Belt getting more or less common?
    More common. 8,422 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,737 in 2010, up 3.7%.