How common is the surname Partain?

3,737 people in the United States had the surname Partain in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,619 Americans. It ranked 8,772nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Partain?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Partain identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Partain getting more or less common?

More common. 3,667 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,737 in 2010, up 1.9%.

The surname Partain

A surname, carried by 3,737 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P635

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Partain is more common than 94.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,737 people named Partain in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 82,619 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,667.

#8,772

rank among US surnames

3,737

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+1.9%

change since 2000 (was #8,307)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,765	Sullins	3,741	82,530
#8,768	Wolfson	3,740	82,552
#8,770	Hine	3,738	82,596
#8,772	Partain	3,737	82,619
#8,773	Peer	3,736	82,641
#8,775	Hosey	3,735	82,663

Who is named Partain

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

94% of people named Partain identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Partain

Partain has the Soundex code P635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P635.

Questions

How common is the surname Partain?: 3,737 people in the United States had the surname Partain in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,619 Americans. It ranked 8,772nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Partain?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Partain identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Partain getting more or less common?: More common. 3,667 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,737 in 2010, up 1.9%.