The surname Litwin
A Polish surname, carried by 2,079 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L350
Origin
Polish origin
From German, from Polish Litwin (“Lithuanian”).
One of 304 Polish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,079 people named Litwin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 148,507 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,101.
Who is named Litwin
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Litwin identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- Two or more races 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Litwin has the Soundex code L350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L350.
Other Polish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Litwin come from?
- From German, from Polish Litwin (“Lithuanian”).
- How common is the surname Litwin?
- 2,079 people in the United States had the surname Litwin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 148,507 Americans. It ranked 14,378th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Litwin?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Litwin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Litwin getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,101 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,079 in 2010, down 1.0%.