How common is the surname Bloch?

4,817 people in the United States had the surname Bloch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,095 Americans. It ranked 6,965th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bloch?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bloch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Bloch?

Robert Bloch, American fiction writer (1917–1994), followed by Ernest Bloch.

Where is the surname Bloch most common?

Wikidata records people named Bloch in the United States, Austria and Brazil and 1 other country.

Is the surname Bloch getting more or less common?

More common. 4,478 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,817 in 2010, up 7.6%.

The surname Bloch

A German surname, carried by 4,817 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bloch is more common than 95.7% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Bloch.

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 4,817 people named Bloch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 64,095 Americans. That is up 7.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,478.

#6,965

rank among US surnames

4,817

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+7.6%

change since 2000 (was #6,910)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,958	Suttles	4,821	64,042
#6,960	Rolle	4,819	64,068
#6,961	Dull	4,818	64,082
#6,965	Sigala	4,817	64,095
#6,968	Peach	4,815	64,122
#6,969	Neighbors	4,814	64,135

Who is named Bloch

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

94% of people named Bloch identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
Two or more races 1.0%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Blochs

13 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Robert Bloch
American fiction writer (1917–1994)
Ernest Bloch
American composer (1880-1959)
Eduard Bloch
Austrian physician (1872-1945)
Débora Bloch
Brazilian actress, born 1963
Joshua Bloch
American software engineer, born 1961
Joseph Samuel Bloch
Austro-Hungarian politician and rabbi (1850-1923)
Albert Bloch
American artist (1882-1961)
Stella Bloch
American journalist (1897–1999)
Maurice Bloch
Anthropologist, born 1939
Andy Bloch
American poker player, born 1969
Arthur Bloch
American writer and humorist, author of the Murphy's Law books, born 1948
Spencer Bloch
American mathematician, born 1944

Notable Blochs come mostly from the United States (8), Austria (2) and Brazil (2).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bloch

Bloch has the Soundex code B420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B420.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Bloch come from?: Borrowed from German Bloch.
How common is the surname Bloch?: 4,817 people in the United States had the surname Bloch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,095 Americans. It ranked 6,965th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bloch?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bloch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Bloch?: Robert Bloch, American fiction writer (1917–1994), followed by Ernest Bloch.
Where is the surname Bloch most common?: Wikidata records people named Bloch in the United States, Austria and Brazil and 1 other country.
Is the surname Bloch getting more or less common?: More common. 4,478 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,817 in 2010, up 7.6%.