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    The surname Freshwater

    A surname, carried by 1,081 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex F623

    Freshwater: #23,500 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Freshwater #23,500, 1,081 people Freshwater: #23,500 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Freshwater #23,500, 1,081 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Freshwater is more common than 85.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,081 people named Freshwater in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 285,611 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,043.

    #23,500
    rank among US surnames
    1,081
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.6%
    change since 2000 (was #22,910)

    Who is named Freshwater

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

    84% of people named Freshwater identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Freshwater

    Freshwater has the Soundex code F623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F623.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Freshwater?
    1,081 people in the United States had the surname Freshwater in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 285,611 Americans. It ranked 23,500th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Freshwater?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Freshwater identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Freshwater getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,043 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,081 in 2010, up 3.6%.