How common is the surname Khalsa?

1,366 people in the United States had the surname Khalsa in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 226,022 Americans. It ranked 19,716th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Khalsa?

In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Khalsa identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Khalsa getting more or less common?

More common. 1,318 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,366 in 2010, up 3.6%.

The surname Khalsa

A Punjabi surname, carried by 1,366 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Khalsa is more common than 87.8% of them.

Origin

Punjabi origin

Borrowed from Punjabi ਖ਼ਾਲਸਾ (xālsā) / خالْصَہ (xālṣah), ultimately from Arabic خَالِص (ḵāliṣ, “pure”).

One of 39 Punjabi surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,366 people named Khalsa in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 226,022 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,318.

#19,716

rank among US surnames

1,366

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.6%

change since 2000 (was #19,090)

Who is named Khalsa

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

72% of people named Khalsa identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 4.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 72%
Asian and Pacific Islander 18%
Two or more races 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Khalsa

Khalsa has the Soundex code K420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K420.

Other Punjabi surnames

All 39 Punjabi surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Khalsa come from?: Borrowed from Punjabi ਖ਼ਾਲਸਾ (xālsā) / خالْصَہ (xālṣah), ultimately from Arabic خَالِص (ḵāliṣ, “pure”).
How common is the surname Khalsa?: 1,366 people in the United States had the surname Khalsa in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 226,022 Americans. It ranked 19,716th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Khalsa?: In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Khalsa identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Khalsa getting more or less common?: More common. 1,318 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,366 in 2010, up 3.6%.