How common is the surname Horwath?

1,327 people in the United States had the surname Horwath in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 232,664 Americans. It ranked 20,125th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Horwath?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Horwath identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Horwath getting more or less common?

More common. 1,234 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,327 in 2010, up 7.5%.

The surname Horwath

A surname, carried by 1,327 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H630

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Horwath is more common than 87.6% of them.

Origin

From a Hungarian form of Horvat / Hrvat ("Croat").

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,327 people named Horwath in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 232,664 Americans. That is up 7.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,234.

#20,125

rank among US surnames

1,327

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+7.5%

change since 2000 (was #20,099)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#20,116	Degenhardt	1,328	232,489
#20,125	Epting	1,327	232,664

Who is named Horwath

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

96% of people named Horwath identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Horwath

Horwath has the Soundex code H630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H630.

Questions

Where does the surname Horwath come from?: From a Hungarian form of Horvat / Hrvat ("Croat").
How common is the surname Horwath?: 1,327 people in the United States had the surname Horwath in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 232,664 Americans. It ranked 20,125th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Horwath?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Horwath identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Horwath getting more or less common?: More common. 1,234 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,327 in 2010, up 7.5%.