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The surname Pancoast

A surname, carried by 1,215 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P522

Pancoast: #21,495 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pancoast #21,495, 1,215 people Pancoast: #21,495 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pancoast #21,495, 1,215 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pancoast is more common than 86.8% of them.

Origin

Variant of Pankhurst or Pentecost.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,215 people named Pancoast in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 254,112 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,186.

#21,495
rank among US surnames
1,215
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+2.4%
change since 2000 (was #20,727)

Who is named Pancoast

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

94% of people named Pancoast identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pancoast

Pancoast has the Soundex code P522, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P522.

Questions

Where does the surname Pancoast come from?
Variant of Pankhurst or Pentecost.
How common is the surname Pancoast?
1,215 people in the United States had the surname Pancoast in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 254,112 Americans. It ranked 21,495th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pancoast?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Pancoast identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Pancoast getting more or less common?
More common. 1,186 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,215 in 2010, up 2.4%.