How common is the surname Louden?

3,855 people in the United States had the surname Louden in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,090 Americans. It ranked 8,536th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Louden getting more or less common?

More common. 3,550 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,855 in 2010, up 8.6%.

The surname Louden

A place surname, carried by 3,855 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L350

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Louden is more common than 94.7% of them.

Origin

Scottish habitational surname, from the parish of Loudoun, in East Ayrshire.

Louden is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,855 people named Louden in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,090 Americans. That is up 8.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,550.

#8,536

rank among US surnames

3,855

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+8.6%

change since 2000 (was #8,544)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,529	Moretti	3,858	80,027
#8,532	Mannino	3,857	80,048
#8,534	Ludlow	3,856	80,069
#8,536	Louden	3,855	80,090
#8,541	Petrone	3,854	80,110

Who is named Louden

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

78% of people named Louden identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 78%
Black (not Hispanic) 17%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Loudon

Surnames that sound like Louden

Louden has the Soundex code L350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L350.

Questions

Where does the surname Louden come from?: Scottish habitational surname, from the parish of Loudoun, in East Ayrshire.
How common is the surname Louden?: 3,855 people in the United States had the surname Louden in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,090 Americans. It ranked 8,536th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Louden?: In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Louden identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Louden?: Louden is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Louden getting more or less common?: More common. 3,550 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,855 in 2010, up 8.6%.
What are other spellings of Louden?: Loudon.