The surname Joh
A German surname, carried by 620 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex J000
Origin
German origin
Various origins: * Borrowed from German Joh. * Variant of Cho, a Korean surname.
One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 620 people named Joh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 497,977 Americans. That is up 30% since 2000, when the Census counted 478.
Who is named Joh
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
65% of people named Joh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 18% as white (not Hispanic) and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 65%
- White (not Hispanic) 18%
- Black (not Hispanic) 13%
- Two or more races 3.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Joh has the Soundex code J000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J000.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Joh come from?
- Various origins: * Borrowed from German Joh. * Variant of Cho, a Korean surname.
- How common is the surname Joh?
- 620 people in the United States had the surname Joh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 497,977 Americans. It ranked 36,154th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Joh?
- In the 2010 Census, 65% of people named Joh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 18% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Joh getting more or less common?
- More common. 478 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 620 in 2010, up 30%.