How common is the surname Pontious?

1,257 people in the United States had the surname Pontious in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 245,621 Americans. It ranked 20,949th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pontious?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Pontious identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Pontious getting more or less common?

More common. 1,156 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,257 in 2010, up 8.7%.

The surname Pontious

A surname, carried by 1,257 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P532

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pontious is more common than 87.1% of them.

Origin

A surname, variant of Pontius.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,257 people named Pontious in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 245,621 Americans. That is up 8.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,156.

#20,949

rank among US surnames

1,257

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+8.7%

change since 2000 (was #21,156)

Who is named Pontious

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

94% of people named Pontious identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

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 Pontious

Pontious has the Soundex code P532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P532.

Questions

How common is the surname Pontious?: 1,257 people in the United States had the surname Pontious in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 245,621 Americans. It ranked 20,949th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pontious?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Pontious identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Pontious getting more or less common?: More common. 1,156 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,257 in 2010, up 8.7%.