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The surname Northcutt

A surname, carried by 6,170 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex N632

Northcutt: #5,633 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Northcutt #5,633, 6,170 people Northcutt: #5,633 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Northcutt #5,633, 6,170 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Northcutt is more common than 96.5% of them.

Origin

Variant of Northcott.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 6,170 people named Northcutt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 50,040 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,112.

#5,633
rank among US surnames
6,170
people in 2010
2.1
per 100,000 Americans
+0.9%
change since 2000 (was #5,247)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#5,629Stumpf6,17350,015
#5,630Strader6,17250,024
#5,632Bayless6,17150,032
#5,633Pennell6,17050,040

Who is named Northcutt

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

87% of people named Northcutt identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 87%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 6.9%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Northcutt

Northcutt has the Soundex code N632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N632.

Questions

Where does the surname Northcutt come from?
Variant of Northcott.
How common is the surname Northcutt?
6,170 people in the United States had the surname Northcutt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 50,040 Americans. It ranked 5,633rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Northcutt?
In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Northcutt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Northcutt getting more or less common?
More common. 6,112 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,170 in 2010, up 0.9%.