How common is the surname Pohlman?

3,945 people in the United States had the surname Pohlman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 78,262 Americans. It ranked 8,389th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pohlman?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Pohlman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Pohlman getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,949 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,945 in 2010, down 0.1%.

The surname Pohlman

A surname, carried by 3,945 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P455

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pohlman is more common than 94.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,945 people named Pohlman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 78,262 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,949.

#8,389

rank among US surnames

3,945

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

-0.1%

change since 2000 (was #7,758)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,385	Trost	3,948	78,203
#8,386	Salamanca	3,947	78,223
#8,388	Board	3,946	78,243
#8,389	Pohlman	3,945	78,262
#8,392	Valera	3,944	78,282

Who is named Pohlman

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

97% of people named Pohlman identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Two or more races 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

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

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Surnames that sound like Pohlman

Pohlman has the Soundex code P455, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P455.

Questions

How common is the surname Pohlman?: 3,945 people in the United States had the surname Pohlman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 78,262 Americans. It ranked 8,389th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pohlman?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Pohlman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Pohlman getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,949 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,945 in 2010, down 0.1%.