How common is the surname Pahl?

3,864 people in the United States had the surname Pahl in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 79,903 Americans. It ranked 8,518th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pahl?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Pahl identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Pahl getting more or less common?

Less common. 4,303 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,864 in 2010, down 10%.

The surname Pahl

A surname, carried by 3,864 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pahl is more common than 94.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,864 people named Pahl in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 79,903 Americans. That is down 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,303.

#8,518

rank among US surnames

3,864

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

-10.2%

change since 2000 (was #7,155)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,511	Sainz	3,869	79,800
#8,512	Shedd	3,868	79,820
#8,517	Lepage	3,865	79,882
#8,518	Pegues	3,864	79,903
#8,523	Coursey	3,862	79,944
#8,525	Sines	3,861	79,965

Who is named Pahl

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

94% of people named Pahl identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.8%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pahl

Pahl has the Soundex code P400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P400.

Questions

How common is the surname Pahl?: 3,864 people in the United States had the surname Pahl in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 79,903 Americans. It ranked 8,518th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pahl?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Pahl identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Pahl getting more or less common?: Less common. 4,303 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,864 in 2010, down 10%.