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    The surname Mountain

    A surname, carried by 3,274 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M535

    Mountain: #9,877 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Mountain #9,877, 3,274 people Mountain: #9,877 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Mountain #9,877, 3,274 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mountain is more common than 93.9% of them.

    Origin

    From mountain.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,274 people named Mountain in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 94,302 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,215.

    #9,877
    rank among US surnames
    3,274
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.8%
    change since 2000 (was #9,310)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,872Dake3,27794,216
    #9,873Bingaman3,27694,245
    #9,875Dewald3,27594,273
    #9,877Portis3,27494,302
    #9,879Soltis3,27394,331
    #9,881Ugarte3,27294,360

    Who is named Mountain

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

    81% of people named Mountain identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.2% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 9.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 5.2%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Mountains

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Marjorie Mountain
      Australian tennis player, 1894–2000
    • Mia Malkova
      American pornographic film actress (born 1992)

    Notable Mountains come mostly from Australia (1) and the United States (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Mountain

    Mountain has the Soundex code M535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M535.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Mountain come from?
    From mountain.
    How common is the surname Mountain?
    3,274 people in the United States had the surname Mountain in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 94,302 Americans. It ranked 9,877th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mountain?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Mountain identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Mountain?
    Marjorie Mountain, Australian tennis player, followed by Mia Malkova.
    Where is the surname Mountain most common?
    Wikidata records people named Mountain in Australia and the United States.
    Is the surname Mountain getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,215 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,274 in 2010, up 1.8%.