The surname Pistole
A German nickname surname, carried by 576 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P234
Origin
German origin
Borrowed from German Pistole (“pistol”), probably a nickname for an aggressive person.
Pistole is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 576 people named Pistole in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 536,017 Americans. That is down 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 615.
Who is named Pistole
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Pistole identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Two or more races 1.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Pistole
Pistole has the Soundex code P234, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P234.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Pistole come from?
- Borrowed from German Pistole (“pistol”), probably a nickname for an aggressive person.
- How common is the surname Pistole?
- 576 people in the United States had the surname Pistole in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 536,017 Americans. It ranked 38,439th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Pistole?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Pistole identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Pistole?
- Pistole is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
- Is the surname Pistole getting more or less common?
- Less common. 615 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 576 in 2010, down 6.3%.