How common is the surname Porath?

1,425 people in the United States had the surname Porath in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 216,664 Americans. It ranked 19,097th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Porath?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Porath identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Porath getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,491 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,425 in 2010, down 4.4%.

The surname Porath

A surname, carried by 1,425 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P630

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Porath is more common than 88.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,425 people named Porath in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 216,664 Americans. That is down 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,491.

#19,097

rank among US surnames

1,425

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-4.4%

change since 2000 (was #17,436)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,097	Porath	1,425	216,664
#19,105	Rosenau	1,424	216,816

Who is named Porath

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

95% of people named Porath identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 1.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Porath

Porath has the Soundex code P630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P630.

Questions

How common is the surname Porath?: 1,425 people in the United States had the surname Porath in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 216,664 Americans. It ranked 19,097th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Porath?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Porath identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Porath getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,491 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,425 in 2010, down 4.4%.