How common is the surname Flood?

17,053 people in the United States had the surname Flood in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 18,105 Americans. It ranked 2,125th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Flood?

Curt Flood, American baseball player (1938–1997), followed by Ann Flood.

Where is the surname Flood most common?

Wikidata records people named Flood in the United States.

How do you pronounce Flood?

Flood is /flʌd/, one syllable.

Is the surname Flood getting more or less common?

More common. 16,652 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,053 in 2010, up 2.4%.

The surname Flood

A surname, carried by 17,053 people in the United States.

Pronounced /flʌd/ 1 syllable Soundex F430

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Flood is more common than 98.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 17,053 people named Flood in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 18,105 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 16,652.

#2,125

rank among US surnames

17,053

people in 2010

5.8

per 100,000 Americans

+2.4%

change since 2000 (was #1,998)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,116	Coon	17,097	18,058
#2,117	Mott	17,092	18,064
#2,119	Dinh	17,081	18,075
#2,120	Hirsch	17,072	18,085
#2,121	Keating	17,060	18,098
#2,122	Chow	17,059	18,099
#2,123	Dutton	17,057	18,101

Who is named Flood

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

79% of people named Flood identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 79%
Black (not Hispanic) 15%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Floods

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Curt Flood
American baseball player (1938–1997)
Ann Flood
American actress, 1932–2022

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Flud

Surnames that sound like Flood

Flood has the Soundex code F430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F430.

Questions

How common is the surname Flood?: 17,053 people in the United States had the surname Flood in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 18,105 Americans. It ranked 2,125th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Flood?: In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Flood identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Flood?: Curt Flood, American baseball player (1938–1997), followed by Ann Flood.
Where is the surname Flood most common?: Wikidata records people named Flood in the United States.
How do you pronounce Flood?: Flood is /flʌd/, one syllable.
Is the surname Flood getting more or less common?: More common. 16,652 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,053 in 2010, up 2.4%.
What are other spellings of Flood?: Flud.