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    The surname Folmar

    A surname, carried by 1,793 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F456

    Folmar: #16,136 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Folmar #16,136, 1,793 people Folmar: #16,136 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Folmar #16,136, 1,793 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Folmar is more common than 90.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,793 people named Folmar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,195 Americans. That is up 6.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,682.

    #16,136
    rank among US surnames
    1,793
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.6%
    change since 2000 (was #15,880)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,130Dickison1,794172,099
    #16,136Bastidas1,793172,195

    Who is named Folmar

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

    80% of people named Folmar identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 80%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.2%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Folmar

    Folmar has the Soundex code F456, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F456.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Folmar?
    1,793 people in the United States had the surname Folmar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,195 Americans. It ranked 16,136th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Folmar?
    In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Folmar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Folmar getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,682 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,793 in 2010, up 6.6%.