How common is the surname Pillow?

3,103 people in the United States had the surname Pillow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,499 Americans. It ranked 10,382nd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Pillow getting more or less common?

More common. 3,086 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,103 in 2010, up 0.6%.

The surname Pillow

A surname, carried by 3,103 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pillow is more common than 93.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,103 people named Pillow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 99,499 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,086.

#10,382

rank among US surnames

3,103

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+0.6%

change since 2000 (was #9,662)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,373	McLamb	3,106	99,403
#10,377	Fromm	3,105	99,435
#10,380	Hosier	3,104	99,467
#10,382	Donohoe	3,103	99,499
#10,387	Tyus	3,102	99,531
#10,391	Carnevale	3,101	99,563

Who is named Pillow

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

73% of people named Pillow identified as white (not Hispanic), 21% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 73%
Black (not Hispanic) 21%
Two or more races 2.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Pellow

Surnames that sound like Pillow

Pillow 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 Pillow?: 3,103 people in the United States had the surname Pillow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,499 Americans. It ranked 10,382nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pillow?: In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Pillow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 21% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Pillow getting more or less common?: More common. 3,086 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,103 in 2010, up 0.6%.
What are other spellings of Pillow?: Pellow.