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    The surname Pilot

    A surname, carried by 1,503 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P430

    Pilot: #18,423 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pilot #18,423, 1,503 people Pilot: #18,423 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pilot #18,423, 1,503 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pilot is more common than 88.6% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,503 people named Pilot in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 205,420 Americans. That is down 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,559.

    #18,423
    rank among US surnames
    1,503
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.6%
    change since 2000 (was #16,852)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,423Pilot1,503205,420
    #18,431Goggans1,502205,556

    Who is named Pilot

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

    68% of people named Pilot identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 68%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 24%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.6%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pilot

    Pilot has the Soundex code P430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P430.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Pilot?
    1,503 people in the United States had the surname Pilot in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,420 Americans. It ranked 18,423rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pilot?
    In the 2010 Census, 68% of people named Pilot identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Pilot getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,559 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,503 in 2010, down 3.6%.