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    The surname Helt

    A surname, carried by 2,534 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H430

    Helt: #12,274 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Helt #12,274, 2,534 people Helt: #12,274 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Helt #12,274, 2,534 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Helt is more common than 92.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,534 people named Helt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,841 Americans. That is up 26% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,012.

    #12,274
    rank among US surnames
    2,534
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +25.9%
    change since 2000 (was #13,796)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,269Berggren2,535121,793
    #12,274Vinyard2,534121,841
    #12,276Altizer2,533121,889
    #12,279Sparling2,532121,937

    Who is named Helt

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

    95% of people named Helt identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Helt

    Helt has the Soundex code H430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H430.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Helt?
    2,534 people in the United States had the surname Helt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,841 Americans. It ranked 12,274th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Helt?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Helt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Helt getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,012 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,534 in 2010, up 26%.