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    The surname Folse

    A surname, carried by 2,260 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F420

    Folse: #13,470 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Folse #13,470, 2,260 people Folse: #13,470 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Folse #13,470, 2,260 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Folse is more common than 91.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,260 people named Folse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 136,613 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,040.

    #13,470
    rank among US surnames
    2,260
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.8%
    change since 2000 (was #13,641)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,462Trottier2,262136,492
    #13,466Hertzog2,261136,553
    #13,470Vandegrift2,260136,613
    #13,472Nease2,259136,674
    #13,474Siewert2,258136,734
    #13,477Corner2,256136,855

    Who is named Folse

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

    86% of people named Folse identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 10%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    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 Folse

    Folse has the Soundex code F420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Folse?
    2,260 people in the United States had the surname Folse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 136,613 Americans. It ranked 13,470th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Folse?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Folse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Folse getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,040 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,260 in 2010, up 11%.