The surname Pledger
An occupational surname, carried by 3,004 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P432
Origin
A surname originating as an occupation.
Pledger is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,004 people named Pledger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 102,778 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,861.
Who is named Pledger
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
65% of people named Pledger identified as white (not Hispanic), 30% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 65%
- Black (not Hispanic) 30%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Pledger
Pledger has the Soundex code P432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P432.
Questions
- How common is the surname Pledger?
- 3,004 people in the United States had the surname Pledger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,778 Americans. It ranked 10,649th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Pledger?
- In the 2010 Census, 65% of people named Pledger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 30% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Pledger?
- Pledger is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Pledger getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,861 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,004 in 2010, up 5.0%.