How common is the surname Hole?

1,794 people in the United States had the surname Hole in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,099 Americans. It ranked 16,130th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hole?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Hole identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Hole getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,986 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,794 in 2010, down 9.7%.

The surname Hole

A place surname, carried by 1,794 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex H400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hole is more common than 90.1% of them.

Origin

Various origins: * English topographic surname for someone who lived by a depression, from Old English holh (“hole”), from Proto-West Germanic *hulwī, from Proto-Germanic *hulwiją. * Borrowed from Norwegian Hole, a habitational surname from Old Norse hóll (“round hill, mound”). * Shortened form of Dutch van Hole, a habitational surname from hol (“hole, depression, cavity”).

Hole is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,794 people named Hole in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,099 Americans. That is down 9.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,986.

#16,130

rank among US surnames

1,794

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-9.7%

change since 2000 (was #13,931)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,125	Kinnaman	1,795	172,003
#16,130	Dickison	1,794	172,099
#16,136	Bastidas	1,793	172,195

Who is named Hole

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

92% of people named Hole identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hole

Hole has the Soundex code H400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H400.

Questions

Where does the surname Hole come from?: Various origins: * English topographic surname for someone who lived by a depression, from Old English holh (“hole”), from Proto-West Germanic *hulwī, from Proto-Germanic *hulwiją. * Borrowed from Norwegian Hole, a habitational surname from Old Norse hóll (“round hill, mound”). * Shortened form of…
How common is the surname Hole?: 1,794 people in the United States had the surname Hole in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,099 Americans. It ranked 16,130th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hole?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Hole identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Hole?: Hole is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Hole getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,986 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,794 in 2010, down 9.7%.