How common is the surname Holmquist?

3,399 people in the United States had the surname Holmquist in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 90,834 Americans. It ranked 9,563rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Holmquist?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Holmquist identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Holmquist getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,418 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,399 in 2010, down 0.6%.

The surname Holmquist

A Swedish surname, carried by 3,399 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H452

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Holmquist is more common than 94.1% of them.

Origin

Swedish origin

Borrowed from Swedish Holmqvist.

One of 133 Swedish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,399 people named Holmquist in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 90,834 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,418.

#9,563

rank among US surnames

3,399

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

-0.6%

change since 2000 (was #8,826)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,557	Lampley	3,402	90,754
#9,560	Arp	3,401	90,781
#9,562	Towery	3,400	90,808
#9,563	Leader	3,399	90,834
#9,567	Hendon	3,398	90,861
#9,568	Sill	3,397	90,888
#9,570	Revis	3,396	90,914

Who is named Holmquist

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

95% of people named Holmquist identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Holmquist

Holmquist has the Soundex code H452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H452.

Other Swedish surnames

All 133 Swedish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Holmquist come from?: Borrowed from Swedish Holmqvist.
How common is the surname Holmquist?: 3,399 people in the United States had the surname Holmquist in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 90,834 Americans. It ranked 9,563rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Holmquist?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Holmquist identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Holmquist getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,418 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,399 in 2010, down 0.6%.