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The surname Pirtle

A surname, carried by 5,315 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P634

Pirtle: #6,400 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pirtle #6,400, 5,315 people Pirtle: #6,400 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pirtle #6,400, 5,315 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pirtle is more common than 96.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,315 people named Pirtle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 58,089 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,141.

#6,400
rank among US surnames
5,315
people in 2010
1.8
per 100,000 Americans
+3.4%
change since 2000 (was #6,135)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#6,391Elwell5,32657,969
#6,392Schroder5,32557,980
#6,393McMillin5,32358,002
#6,394Golding5,32158,024
#6,395Babbitt5,32058,035
#6,396Cofield5,31958,046
#6,398Whitmer5,31758,068

Who is named Pirtle

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

69% of people named Pirtle identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 69%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 25%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
  • Two or more races 2.5%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
  • 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 Pirtle

Pirtle has the Soundex code P634, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P634.

Questions

How common is the surname Pirtle?
5,315 people in the United States had the surname Pirtle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 58,089 Americans. It ranked 6,400th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pirtle?
In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Pirtle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Pirtle getting more or less common?
More common. 5,141 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,315 in 2010, up 3.4%.