The surname Molden
A surname, carried by 1,968 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex M435
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,968 people named Molden in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 156,883 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,690.
#15,005
rank among US surnames
1,968
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+16.4%
change since 2000 (was #15,815)
Who is named Molden
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
54% of people named Molden identified as white (not Hispanic), 40% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.7% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 54%
- Black (not Hispanic) 40%
- Two or more races 3.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Molden
Molden has the Soundex code M435, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M435.
Questions
- How common is the surname Molden?
- 1,968 people in the United States had the surname Molden in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 156,883 Americans. It ranked 15,005th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Molden?
- In the 2010 Census, 54% of people named Molden identified as white (not Hispanic), and 40% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Molden getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,690 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,968 in 2010, up 16%.