How common is the surname Paluch?

1,409 people in the United States had the surname Paluch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 219,124 Americans. It ranked 19,242nd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Paluch getting more or less common?

More common. 1,367 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,409 in 2010, up 3.1%.

The surname Paluch

A surname, carried by 1,409 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Paluch is more common than 88.1% of them.

Origin

From Polish Paluch, Slovak Palúch, Slovak Paľuch, Slovak Paľúch, or Ukrainian Палюх (Paljux).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,409 people named Paluch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 219,124 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,367.

#19,242

rank among US surnames

1,409

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.1%

change since 2000 (was #18,594)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,234	Selle	1,410	218,968
#19,242	Stuhr	1,409	219,124

Who is named Paluch

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

97% of people named Paluch identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Two or more races 1.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Palluch
Palukh
Palyukh

Surnames that sound like Paluch

Paluch has the Soundex code P420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P420.

Questions

Where does the surname Paluch come from?: From Polish Paluch, Slovak Palúch, Slovak Paľuch, Slovak Paľúch, or Ukrainian Палюх (Paljux).
How common is the surname Paluch?: 1,409 people in the United States had the surname Paluch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 219,124 Americans. It ranked 19,242nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Paluch?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Paluch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.1% as two or more races.
Is the surname Paluch getting more or less common?: More common. 1,367 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,409 in 2010, up 3.1%.
What are other spellings of Paluch?: Palluch, Palukh and Palyukh.