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    The surname Ponder

    A surname, carried by 11,764 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P536

    Ponder: #3,044 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Ponder #3,044, 11,764 people Ponder: #3,044 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Ponder #3,044, 11,764 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ponder is more common than 98.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 11,764 people named Ponder in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 26,245 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,550.

    #3,044
    rank among US surnames
    11,764
    people in 2010
    4.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.9%
    change since 2000 (was #2,854)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,035Arenas11,80926,145
    #3,036Tomlin11,79726,172
    #3,037Cardwell11,79126,185
    #3,038Milam11,78726,194
    #3,039Bowie11,78626,196
    #3,040Halverson11,78126,207
    #3,041Speer11,77026,232

    Who is named Ponder

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

    67% of people named Ponder identified as white (not Hispanic), 28% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 67%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 28%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Ponder

    Ponder has the Soundex code P536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P536.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Ponder?
    11,764 people in the United States had the surname Ponder in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 26,245 Americans. It ranked 3,044th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Ponder?
    In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Ponder identified as white (not Hispanic), and 28% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Ponder getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,550 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,764 in 2010, up 1.9%.