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    The surname Porch

    A surname, carried by 2,936 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex P620

    Porch: #10,847 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Porch #10,847, 2,936 people Porch: #10,847 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Porch #10,847, 2,936 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Porch is more common than 93.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,936 people named Porch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 105,159 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,796.

    #10,847
    rank among US surnames
    2,936
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5%
    change since 2000 (was #10,527)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,844Fedor2,937105,123
    #10,847Enlow2,936105,159
    #10,851Henriksen2,935105,194

    Who is named Porch

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

    64% of people named Porch identified as white (not Hispanic), 31% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 64%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 31%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • 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 Porch

    Porch has the Soundex code P620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P620.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Porch?
    2,936 people in the United States had the surname Porch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,159 Americans. It ranked 10,847th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Porch?
    In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Porch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 31% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Porch getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,796 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,936 in 2010, up 5.0%.