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The surname Godbolt

A surname, carried by 1,735 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G314

Godbolt: #16,544 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Godbolt #16,544, 1,735 people Godbolt: #16,544 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Godbolt #16,544, 1,735 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Godbolt is more common than 89.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,735 people named Godbolt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 177,951 Americans. That is up 8.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,603.

#16,544
rank among US surnames
1,735
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+8.2%
change since 2000 (was #16,502)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,536Divito1,736177,849
#16,544Mian1,735177,951

Who is named Godbolt

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

79% of people named Godbolt identified as Black (not Hispanic), 12% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.8% as two or more races.

  • Black (not Hispanic) 79%
  • White (not Hispanic) 12%
  • Two or more races 3.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Godbolt

Godbolt has the Soundex code G314, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G314.

Questions

How common is the surname Godbolt?
1,735 people in the United States had the surname Godbolt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 177,951 Americans. It ranked 16,544th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Godbolt?
In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Godbolt identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 12% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Godbolt getting more or less common?
More common. 1,603 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,735 in 2010, up 8.2%.