The surname Holding
A surname, carried by 1,479 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H435
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,479 people named Holding in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 208,753 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,284.
#18,614
rank among US surnames
1,479
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+15.2%
change since 2000 (was #19,470)
Who is named Holding
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
86% of people named Holding identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 86%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Holding has the Soundex code H435, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H435.
Questions
- How common is the surname Holding?
- 1,479 people in the United States had the surname Holding in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 208,753 Americans. It ranked 18,614th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Holding?
- In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Holding identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Holding getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,284 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,479 in 2010, up 15%.