How common is the surname Ponte?

2,924 people in the United States had the surname Ponte in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,590 Americans. It ranked 10,894th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Ponte?

In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Ponte identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Ponte getting more or less common?

More common. 2,465 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,924 in 2010, up 19%.

The surname Ponte

A Portuguese surname, carried by 2,924 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P530

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ponte is more common than 93.3% of them.

Origin

Portuguese origin

Borrowed from Portuguese, Galician and Italian Ponte.

One of 71 Portuguese surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,924 people named Ponte in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 105,590 Americans. That is up 19% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,465.

#10,894

rank among US surnames

2,924

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+18.6%

change since 2000 (was #11,660)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,889	Linker	2,927	105,482
#10,890	Divine	2,926	105,518
#10,891	Lesley	2,925	105,554
#10,894	Jelinek	2,924	105,590
#10,897	Honey	2,923	105,626
#10,900	Mozingo	2,921	105,699

Who is named Ponte

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

77% of people named Ponte identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 77%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 19%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.0%
Two or more races 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Ponte

Ponte has the Soundex code P530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P530.

Other Portuguese surnames

All 71 Portuguese surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Ponte come from?: Borrowed from Portuguese, Galician and Italian Ponte.
How common is the surname Ponte?: 2,924 people in the United States had the surname Ponte in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,590 Americans. It ranked 10,894th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ponte?: In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Ponte identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Ponte getting more or less common?: More common. 2,465 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,924 in 2010, up 19%.