How common is the surname Fought?

1,157 people in the United States had the surname Fought in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 266,850 Americans. It ranked 22,281st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Fought?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Fought identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Fought getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,161 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,157 in 2010, down 0.3%.

The surname Fought

A surname, carried by 1,157 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex F230

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fought is more common than 86.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,157 people named Fought in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 266,850 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,161.

#22,281

rank among US surnames

1,157

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-0.3%

change since 2000 (was #21,088)

Who is named Fought

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

96% of people named Fought identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Fought

Fought has the Soundex code F230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F230.

Questions

How common is the surname Fought?: 1,157 people in the United States had the surname Fought in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 266,850 Americans. It ranked 22,281st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fought?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Fought identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Fought getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,161 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,157 in 2010, down 0.3%.