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    The surname Felts

    A surname, carried by 6,621 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F432

    Felts: #5,267 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Felts #5,267, 6,621 people Felts: #5,267 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Felts #5,267, 6,621 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Felts is more common than 96.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,621 people named Felts in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 46,631 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 6,652.

    #5,267
    rank among US surnames
    6,621
    people in 2010
    2.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #4,840)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,258Nazario6,63646,526
    #5,259Huebner6,63546,533
    #5,261Brasher6,63446,540
    #5,262Wessel6,63046,568
    #5,264Bowe6,62846,582
    #5,265Deese6,62646,596
    #5,266Maggard6,62546,603

    Who is named Felts

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

    90% of people named Felts identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Felts

    Felts has the Soundex code F432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F432.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Felts?
    6,621 people in the United States had the surname Felts in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 46,631 Americans. It ranked 5,267th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Felts?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Felts identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Felts getting more or less common?
    Less common. 6,652 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,621 in 2010, down 0.5%.