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The surname Pint

A Dutch occupational surname, carried by 655 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P530

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pint is more common than 78.7% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

Borrowed from Dutch Pint, a metonymic occupational surname for an official who controlled measures.

Pint is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 655 people named Pint in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 471,367 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 582.

#34,539
rank among US surnames
655
people in 2010
0.2
per 100,000 Americans
+12.5%
change since 2000 (was #36,328)

Who is named Pint

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

95% of people named Pint identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
  • Two or more races 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Pint

Pint has the Soundex code P530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P530.

Other Dutch surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Pint come from?
Borrowed from Dutch Pint, a metonymic occupational surname for an official who controlled measures.
How common is the surname Pint?
655 people in the United States had the surname Pint in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 471,367 Americans. It ranked 34,539th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pint?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Pint identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Pint?
Pint is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Pint getting more or less common?
More common. 582 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 655 in 2010, up 13%.