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The surname Foland

A surname, carried by 1,769 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F453

Foland: #16,302 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Foland #16,302, 1,769 people Foland: #16,302 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Foland #16,302, 1,769 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Foland is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,769 people named Foland in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 174,531 Americans. That is up 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,664.

#16,302
rank among US surnames
1,769
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+6.3%
change since 2000 (was #16,016)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,295Swayne1,770174,433
#16,302Merten1,769174,531
#16,305Renderos1,768174,630

Who is named Foland

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

95% of people named Foland identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
  • Two or more races 0.9%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Foland

Foland has the Soundex code F453, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F453.

Questions

How common is the surname Foland?
1,769 people in the United States had the surname Foland in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,531 Americans. It ranked 16,302nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Foland?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Foland identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Foland getting more or less common?
More common. 1,664 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,769 in 2010, up 6.3%.