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    The surname Calhoon

    A surname, carried by 2,141 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C450

    Calhoon: #14,062 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Calhoon #14,062, 2,141 people Calhoon: #14,062 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Calhoon #14,062, 2,141 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Calhoon is more common than 91.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,141 people named Calhoon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 144,206 Americans. That is down 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,217.

    #14,062
    rank among US surnames
    2,141
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.4%
    change since 2000 (was #12,773)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,058Stringfield2,142144,139
    #14,062Calhoon2,141144,206
    #14,064Frison2,140144,274
    #14,067Castiglione2,139144,341
    #14,070Mazon2,138144,409

    Who is named Calhoon

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

    92% of people named Calhoon identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Calhoon

    Calhoon has the Soundex code C450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C450.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Calhoon?
    2,141 people in the United States had the surname Calhoon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 144,206 Americans. It ranked 14,062nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Calhoon?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Calhoon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Calhoon getting more or less common?
    Less common. 2,217 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,141 in 2010, down 3.4%.