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The surname Hoots

A surname, carried by 1,918 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex H320

Hoots: #15,303 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hoots #15,303, 1,918 people Hoots: #15,303 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hoots #15,303, 1,918 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hoots is more common than 90.6% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,918 people named Hoots in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 160,973 Americans. That is down 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,964.

#15,303
rank among US surnames
1,918
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
-2.3%
change since 2000 (was #14,069)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,296Brasfield1,919160,889
#15,303Canto1,918160,973
#15,309Kinner1,917161,057

Who is named Hoots

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

95% of people named Hoots identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
  • Two or more races 0.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hoots

Hoots has the Soundex code H320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H320.

Questions

How common is the surname Hoots?
1,918 people in the United States had the surname Hoots in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,973 Americans. It ranked 15,303rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hoots?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Hoots identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Hoots getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,964 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,918 in 2010, down 2.3%.