How common is the surname Ponton?

2,303 people in the United States had the surname Ponton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 134,062 Americans. It ranked 13,255th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Ponton getting more or less common?

More common. 2,230 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,303 in 2010, up 3.3%.

The surname Ponton

A French place surname, carried by 2,303 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P535

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ponton is more common than 91.8% of them.

Origin

French origin

Three main origins: * English and Scottish habitational surname, from the villages of Great and Little Ponton, named probably with an obscure Old English word pamp (“hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). * Borrowed from French Ponton. * Borrowed from Spanish Pontón.

Ponton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,303 people named Ponton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 134,062 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,230.

#13,255

rank among US surnames

2,303

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+3.3%

change since 2000 (was #12,716)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,246	Yousef	2,305	133,946
#13,251	Amey	2,304	134,004
#13,255	Blackledge	2,303	134,062
#13,259	Hershman	2,302	134,121
#13,263	Franko	2,301	134,179
#13,264	Paull	2,300	134,237

Who is named Ponton

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

63% of people named Ponton identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 15% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 63%
Black (not Hispanic) 17%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 15%
Two or more races 2.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Ponton

Ponton has the Soundex code P535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P535.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Ponton come from?: Three main origins: * English and Scottish habitational surname, from the villages of Great and Little Ponton, named probably with an obscure Old English word pamp (“hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). * Borrowed from French Ponton. * Borrowed from Spanish Pontón.
How common is the surname Ponton?: 2,303 people in the United States had the surname Ponton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 134,062 Americans. It ranked 13,255th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ponton?: In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Ponton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Ponton?: Ponton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Ponton getting more or less common?: More common. 2,230 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,303 in 2010, up 3.3%.