How common is the surname Ewalt?

1,144 people in the United States had the surname Ewalt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 269,882 Americans. It ranked 22,481st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Ewalt?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Ewalt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Ewalt getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,152 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,144 in 2010, down 0.7%.

The surname Ewalt

A surname, carried by 1,144 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex E430

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ewalt is more common than 86.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,144 people named Ewalt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 269,882 Americans. That is down 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,152.

#22,481

rank among US surnames

1,144

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-0.7%

change since 2000 (was #21,230)

Who is named Ewalt

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

94% of people named Ewalt identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 1.5%
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

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Ewalt

Ewald

Ewalt has the Soundex code E430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E430.

Questions

How common is the surname Ewalt?: 1,144 people in the United States had the surname Ewalt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 269,882 Americans. It ranked 22,481st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ewalt?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Ewalt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Ewalt getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,152 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,144 in 2010, down 0.7%.