How common is the surname Blinn?

1,762 people in the United States had the surname Blinn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 175,224 Americans. It ranked 16,349th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Blinn?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Blinn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Blinn getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,824 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,762 in 2010, down 3.4%.

The surname Blinn

A surname, carried by 1,762 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B450

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blinn is more common than 89.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,762 people named Blinn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 175,224 Americans. That is down 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,824.

#16,349

rank among US surnames

1,762

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-3.4%

change since 2000 (was #14,885)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,343	Scheffer	1,763	175,125
#16,349	Mecca	1,762	175,224

Who is named Blinn

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

96% of people named Blinn identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Blinn

Blinn has the Soundex code B450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B450.

Questions

How common is the surname Blinn?: 1,762 people in the United States had the surname Blinn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 175,224 Americans. It ranked 16,349th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Blinn?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Blinn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Blinn getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,824 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,762 in 2010, down 3.4%.