How common is the surname Poorman?

2,387 people in the United States had the surname Poorman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 129,345 Americans. It ranked 12,886th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Poorman?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Poorman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Poorman getting more or less common?

More common. 2,325 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,387 in 2010, up 2.7%.

The surname Poorman

A surname, carried by 2,387 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P655

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Poorman is more common than 92.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,387 people named Poorman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 129,345 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,325.

#12,886

rank among US surnames

2,387

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+2.7%

change since 2000 (was #12,273)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,878	Silber	2,390	129,182
#12,881	Dearth	2,389	129,236
#12,884	Capetillo	2,388	129,290
#12,886	Winfree	2,387	129,345
#12,889	Emrick	2,386	129,399
#12,894	Bross	2,385	129,453

Who is named Poorman

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

91% of people named Poorman identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
American Indian and Alaska Native 3.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Poorman

Poorman has the Soundex code P655, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P655.

Questions

How common is the surname Poorman?: 2,387 people in the United States had the surname Poorman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 129,345 Americans. It ranked 12,886th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Poorman?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Poorman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Poorman getting more or less common?: More common. 2,325 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,387 in 2010, up 2.7%.