How common is the surname Feltz?

1,594 people in the United States had the surname Feltz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 193,692 Americans. It ranked 17,625th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Feltz?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Feltz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Feltz getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,685 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,594 in 2010, down 5.4%.

The surname Feltz

A surname, carried by 1,594 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex F432

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Feltz is more common than 89.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,594 people named Feltz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 193,692 Americans. That is down 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,685.

#17,625

rank among US surnames

1,594

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-5.4%

change since 2000 (was #15,854)

Who is named Feltz

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

96% of people named Feltz identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

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

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Surnames that sound like Feltz

Feltz 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 Feltz?: 1,594 people in the United States had the surname Feltz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 193,692 Americans. It ranked 17,625th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Feltz?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Feltz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Feltz getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,685 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,594 in 2010, down 5.4%.