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The surname Kurth

A surname, carried by 4,951 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K630

Kurth: #6,813 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kurth #6,813, 4,951 people Kurth: #6,813 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kurth #6,813, 4,951 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kurth is more common than 95.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,951 people named Kurth in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 62,360 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,494.

#6,813
rank among US surnames
4,951
people in 2010
1.7
per 100,000 Americans
+10.2%
change since 2000 (was #6,891)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#6,808Gilstrap4,95462,322
#6,809Jefferies4,95362,335
#6,811Toland4,95262,348
#6,813Kurth4,95162,360
#6,814Breckenridge4,94962,385

Who is named Kurth

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

96% of people named Kurth identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
  • Two or more races 1.0%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kurth

Kurth has the Soundex code K630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K630.

Questions

How common is the surname Kurth?
4,951 people in the United States had the surname Kurth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 62,360 Americans. It ranked 6,813th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kurth?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kurth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kurth getting more or less common?
More common. 4,494 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,951 in 2010, up 10%.