How common is the surname Matheny?

8,595 people in the United States had the surname Matheny in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,922 Americans. It ranked 4,128th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Matheny getting more or less common?

More common. 8,369 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,595 in 2010, up 2.7%.

The surname Matheny

A French place surname, carried by 8,595 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex M350

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Matheny is more common than 97.5% of them.

Origin

French origin

Borrowed from French Matheny, perhap a habitational surname from a place called Mathenay.

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

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,595 people named Matheny in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 35,922 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,369.

#4,128

rank among US surnames

8,595

people in 2010

2.9

per 100,000 Americans

+2.7%

change since 2000 (was #3,902)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,119	Shanahan	8,616	35,834
#4,121	Ibanez	8,614	35,842
#4,123	Hernandes	8,612	35,851
#4,124	Garrido	8,605	35,880
#4,125	Spalding	8,601	35,896
#4,126	Deanda	8,600	35,901
#4,127	Calabrese	8,599	35,905

Who is named Matheny

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

92% of people named Matheny identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Mathenia

Surnames that sound like Matheny

Matheny has the Soundex code M350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M350.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Matheny come from?: Borrowed from French Matheny, perhap a habitational surname from a place called Mathenay.
How common is the surname Matheny?: 8,595 people in the United States had the surname Matheny in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,922 Americans. It ranked 4,128th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Matheny?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Matheny identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Matheny?: Matheny is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Matheny getting more or less common?: More common. 8,369 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,595 in 2010, up 2.7%.
What are other spellings of Matheny?: Mathenia.