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    The surname Flaten

    A surname, carried by 1,055 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F435

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Flaten is more common than 85.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,055 people named Flaten in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 292,650 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,047.

    #23,920
    rank among US surnames
    1,055
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.8%
    change since 2000 (was #22,833)

    Who is named Flaten

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

    98% of people named Flaten identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 98%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Flaten

    Flaten has the Soundex code F435, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F435.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Flaten?
    1,055 people in the United States had the surname Flaten in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 292,650 Americans. It ranked 23,920th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Flaten?
    In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Flaten identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Flaten getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,047 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,055 in 2010, up 0.8%.