The surname Fentress
A surname, carried by 2,432 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex F536
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,432 people named Fentress in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 126,951 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,373.
#12,694
rank among US surnames
2,432
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+2.5%
change since 2000 (was #12,064)
Who is named Fentress
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
63% of people named Fentress identified as white (not Hispanic), 31% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 63%
- Black (not Hispanic) 31%
- Two or more races 3.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Fentress has the Soundex code F536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F536.
Questions
- How common is the surname Fentress?
- 2,432 people in the United States had the surname Fentress in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 126,951 Americans. It ranked 12,694th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Fentress?
- In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Fentress identified as white (not Hispanic), and 31% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Fentress getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,373 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,432 in 2010, up 2.5%.