How common is the surname Mount?

8,754 people in the United States had the surname Mount in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,269 Americans. It ranked 4,055th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Mount getting more or less common?

More common. 8,602 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,754 in 2010, up 1.8%.

The surname Mount

A surname, carried by 8,754 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M530

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

Origin

English surname, from the noun mount.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,754 people named Mount in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 35,269 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,602.

#4,055

rank among US surnames

8,754

people in 2010

3.0

per 100,000 Americans

+1.8%

change since 2000 (was #3,780)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,046	Meeker	8,781	35,161
#4,048	Cathey	8,779	35,169
#4,049	Craddock	8,772	35,197
#4,050	Kirsch	8,764	35,229
#4,051	Back	8,762	35,237
#4,052	Arsenault	8,760	35,245
#4,053	Spring	8,757	35,257

Who is named Mount

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

89% of people named Mount identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.3%
Two or more races 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Mount

Mount has the Soundex code M530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M530.

Questions

Where does the surname Mount come from?: English surname, from the noun mount.
How common is the surname Mount?: 8,754 people in the United States had the surname Mount in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,269 Americans. It ranked 4,055th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mount?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Mount identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Mount getting more or less common?: More common. 8,602 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,754 in 2010, up 1.8%.