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The surname Earnhart

A German surname, carried by 1,116 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex E656

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Earnhart is more common than 85.9% of them.

Origin

German origin

A surname from German, variant of Earnhardt.

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 1,116 people named Earnhart in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 276,654 Americans. That is down 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,141.

#22,924
rank among US surnames
1,116
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
-2.2%
change since 2000 (was #21,381)

Who is named Earnhart

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

95% of people named Earnhart identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as two or more races and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Two or more races 1.7%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Earnhart

Earnhart has the Soundex code E656, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E656.

Other German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Earnhart come from?
Earnhart is German in origin.
How common is the surname Earnhart?
1,116 people in the United States had the surname Earnhart in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 276,654 Americans. It ranked 22,924th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Earnhart?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Earnhart identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as two or more races.
Is the surname Earnhart getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,141 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,116 in 2010, down 2.2%.