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The surname Hooten

A surname, carried by 4,751 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H350

Hooten: #7,048 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hooten #7,048, 4,751 people Hooten: #7,048 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hooten #7,048, 4,751 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hooten is more common than 95.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,751 people named Hooten in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 64,985 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,508.

#7,048
rank among US surnames
4,751
people in 2010
1.6
per 100,000 Americans
+5.4%
change since 2000 (was #6,876)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#7,044Gandara4,75464,944
#7,046Aubrey4,75364,958
#7,047Wilborn4,75264,972
#7,048Hooten4,75164,985
#7,050Rinker4,75064,999
#7,052Mapp4,74965,013

Who is named Hooten

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

82% of people named Hooten identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 82%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
  • Two or more races 2.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hooten

Hooten has the Soundex code H350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H350.

Questions

How common is the surname Hooten?
4,751 people in the United States had the surname Hooten in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,985 Americans. It ranked 7,048th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hooten?
In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Hooten identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Hooten getting more or less common?
More common. 4,508 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,751 in 2010, up 5.4%.