How common is the surname Matney?

5,518 people in the United States had the surname Matney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 55,952 Americans. It ranked 6,198th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Matney?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Matney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Matney getting more or less common?

More common. 5,207 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,518 in 2010, up 6.0%.

The surname Matney

A surname, carried by 5,518 people in the United States.

2 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). Matney is more common than 96.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,518 people named Matney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 55,952 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,207.

#6,198

rank among US surnames

5,518

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+6%

change since 2000 (was #6,074)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,194	Ryals	5,523	55,902
#6,195	Truman	5,521	55,922
#6,197	Dudek	5,519	55,942
#6,198	Matney	5,518	55,952

Who is named Matney

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

94% of people named Matney identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Matney

Matney 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 Matney?: 5,518 people in the United States had the surname Matney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 55,952 Americans. It ranked 6,198th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Matney?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Matney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Matney getting more or less common?: More common. 5,207 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,518 in 2010, up 6.0%.