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The surname Custard

A surname, carried by 1,245 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C236

Custard: #21,092 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Custard #21,092, 1,245 people Custard: #21,092 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Custard #21,092, 1,245 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Custard is more common than 87% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,245 people named Custard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 247,988 Americans. That is up 8.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,148.

#21,092
rank among US surnames
1,245
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+8.4%
change since 2000 (was #21,273)

Who is named Custard

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

62% of people named Custard identified as white (not Hispanic), 30% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.2% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 62%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 30%
  • Two or more races 4.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Custard

Custard has the Soundex code C236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C236.

Questions

How common is the surname Custard?
1,245 people in the United States had the surname Custard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 247,988 Americans. It ranked 21,092nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Custard?
In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Custard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 30% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Custard getting more or less common?
More common. 1,148 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,245 in 2010, up 8.4%.