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    The surname Pleasants

    A surname, carried by 1,917 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P425

    Pleasants: #15,309 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pleasants #15,309, 1,917 people Pleasants: #15,309 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pleasants #15,309, 1,917 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pleasants is more common than 90.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,917 people named Pleasants in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 161,057 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,937.

    #15,309
    rank among US surnames
    1,917
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1%
    change since 2000 (was #14,212)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,303Canto1,918160,973
    #15,309Kinner1,917161,057
    #15,318Quisenberry1,916161,141

    Who is named Pleasants

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

    69% of people named Pleasants identified as white (not Hispanic), 27% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 27%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    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 Pleasants

    Pleasants has the Soundex code P425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P425.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Pleasants?
    1,917 people in the United States had the surname Pleasants in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 161,057 Americans. It ranked 15,309th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pleasants?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Pleasants identified as white (not Hispanic), and 27% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Pleasants getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,937 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,917 in 2010, down 1.0%.