How common is the surname Phalen?

1,724 people in the United States had the surname Phalen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 179,087 Americans. It ranked 16,630th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Phalen?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Phalen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Phalen getting more or less common?

More common. 1,702 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,724 in 2010, up 1.3%.

The surname Phalen

A surname, carried by 1,724 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P450

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Phalen is more common than 89.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,724 people named Phalen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 179,087 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,702.

#16,630

rank among US surnames

1,724

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1.3%

change since 2000 (was #15,745)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,624	Nie	1,725	178,983
#16,630	Vanriper	1,724	179,087
#16,635	Debellis	1,723	179,191

Who is named Phalen

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

94% of people named Phalen identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.8%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Phalen

Phalen has the Soundex code P450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P450.

Questions

How common is the surname Phalen?: 1,724 people in the United States had the surname Phalen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 179,087 Americans. It ranked 16,630th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Phalen?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Phalen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Phalen getting more or less common?: More common. 1,702 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,724 in 2010, up 1.3%.