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    The surname Fruit

    A surname, carried by 725 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F630

    Fruit: #31,824 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Fruit #31,824, 725 people Fruit: #31,824 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Fruit #31,824, 725 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fruit is more common than 80.4% of them.

    Origin

    * As a German surname, Americanized from Fruth, and also Frucht. * As a French and West Flemish surname, from the noun fruit. Sometimes also shortened from the personal name Godefrait, a French form of Godfrey.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 725 people named Fruit in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 425,856 Americans. That is down 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 759.

    #31,824
    rank among US surnames
    725
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -4.5%
    change since 2000 (was #29,359)

    Who is named Fruit

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

    91% of people named Fruit identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    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

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    Surnames that sound like Fruit

    Fruit has the Soundex code F630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F630.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Fruit come from?
    * As a German surname, Americanized from Fruth, and also Frucht. * As a French and West Flemish surname, from the noun fruit. Sometimes also shortened from the personal name Godefrait, a French form of Godfrey.
    How common is the surname Fruit?
    725 people in the United States had the surname Fruit in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 425,856 Americans. It ranked 31,824th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fruit?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Fruit identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Fruit getting more or less common?
    Less common. 759 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 725 in 2010, down 4.5%.