The surname Organ
An occupational surname, carried by 2,431 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex O625
Origin
From organ, a metonymic occupational surname for a player of a musical instrument.
Organ is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,431 people named Organ in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 127,004 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,125.
Who is named Organ
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
84% of people named Organ identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 84%
- Black (not Hispanic) 10%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 2.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Organ has the Soundex code O625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O625.
Questions
- Where does the surname Organ come from?
- From organ, a metonymic occupational surname for a player of a musical instrument.
- How common is the surname Organ?
- 2,431 people in the United States had the surname Organ in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 127,004 Americans. It ranked 12,696th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Organ?
- In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Organ identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Organ?
- Organ is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Organ getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,125 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,431 in 2010, up 14%.