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    The surname Ploof

    A surname, carried by 1,598 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex P410

    Ploof: #17,586 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Ploof #17,586, 1,598 people Ploof: #17,586 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Ploof #17,586, 1,598 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ploof is more common than 89.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,598 people named Ploof in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 193,207 Americans. That is down 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,641.

    #17,586
    rank among US surnames
    1,598
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.6%
    change since 2000 (was #16,194)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,582Bick1,599193,087
    #17,586Ploof1,598193,207

    Who is named Ploof

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

    97% of people named Ploof identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, 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 Ploof

    Ploof has the Soundex code P410, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P410.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Ploof?
    1,598 people in the United States had the surname Ploof in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 193,207 Americans. It ranked 17,586th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Ploof?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Ploof identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Ploof getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,641 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,598 in 2010, down 2.6%.