How common is the surname Faunce?

1,319 people in the United States had the surname Faunce in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,075 Americans. It ranked 20,201st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Faunce?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Faunce identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Faunce getting more or less common?

More common. 1,308 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,319 in 2010, up 0.8%.

The surname Faunce

A surname, carried by 1,319 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex F520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Faunce is more common than 87.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,319 people named Faunce in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 234,075 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,308.

#20,201

rank among US surnames

1,319

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+0.8%

change since 2000 (was #19,196)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#20,192	Ruppe	1,320	233,898
#20,201	Redington	1,319	234,075

Who is named Faunce

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

95% of people named Faunce identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 1.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Faunce

Faunce has the Soundex code F520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F520.

Questions

How common is the surname Faunce?: 1,319 people in the United States had the surname Faunce in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,075 Americans. It ranked 20,201st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Faunce?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Faunce identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Faunce getting more or less common?: More common. 1,308 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,319 in 2010, up 0.8%.