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    The surname Greenawalt

    A surname, carried by 3,153 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex G654

    Greenawalt: #10,224 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Greenawalt #10,224, 3,153 people Greenawalt: #10,224 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Greenawalt #10,224, 3,153 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Greenawalt is more common than 93.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,153 people named Greenawalt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,921 Americans. That is up 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,948.

    #10,224
    rank among US surnames
    3,153
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7%
    change since 2000 (was #10,081)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,215Shue3,15597,859
    #10,219Greeson3,15497,890
    #10,224Michelson3,15397,921
    #10,228Trammel3,15297,952
    #10,232Lukens3,15197,983
    #10,233Edington3,15098,014

    Who is named Greenawalt

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

    96% of people named Greenawalt identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Greenawalt

    Greenawalt has the Soundex code G654, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G654.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Greenawalt?
    3,153 people in the United States had the surname Greenawalt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,921 Americans. It ranked 10,224th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Greenawalt?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Greenawalt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Greenawalt getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,948 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,153 in 2010, up 7.0%.