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    The surname Faught

    A surname, carried by 3,357 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F230

    Faught: #9,667 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Faught #9,667, 3,357 people Faught: #9,667 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Faught #9,667, 3,357 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Faught is more common than 94% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,357 people named Faught in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 91,971 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,324.

    #9,667
    rank among US surnames
    3,357
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1%
    change since 2000 (was #9,041)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,661Hellman3,36091,889
    #9,664Dinardo3,35991,916
    #9,666Kennelly3,35891,943
    #9,667Oliveri3,35791,971
    #9,669Shear3,35691,998
    #9,672Vanlandingham3,35592,025

    Who is named Faught

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

    94% of people named Faught identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Faught

    Faught has the Soundex code F230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F230.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Faught?
    3,357 people in the United States had the surname Faught in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 91,971 Americans. It ranked 9,667th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Faught?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Faught identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Faught getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,324 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,357 in 2010, up 1.0%.