The surname Mitchem
A surname, carried by 4,965 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex M325
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,965 people named Mitchem in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 62,184 Americans. That is up 9.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,550.
#6,793
rank among US surnames
4,965
people in 2010
1.7
per 100,000 Americans
+9.1%
change since 2000 (was #6,818)
Who is named Mitchem
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
78% of people named Mitchem identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 78%
- Black (not Hispanic) 17%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Mitchem has the Soundex code M325, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M325.
Questions
- How common is the surname Mitchem?
- 4,965 people in the United States had the surname Mitchem in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 62,184 Americans. It ranked 6,793rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Mitchem?
- In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Mitchem identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Mitchem getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,550 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,965 in 2010, up 9.1%.