The surname Matheney
A surname, carried by 1,702 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex M350
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,702 people named Matheney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 181,402 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,488.
#16,781
rank among US surnames
1,702
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+14.4%
change since 2000 (was #17,466)
Who is named Matheney
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
86% of people named Matheney identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 86%
- Black (not Hispanic) 9.9%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Matheney has the Soundex code M350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M350.
Questions
- How common is the surname Matheney?
- 1,702 people in the United States had the surname Matheney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 181,402 Americans. It ranked 16,781st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Matheney?
- In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Matheney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Matheney getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,488 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,702 in 2010, up 14%.