How common is the surname Porterfield?

6,780 people in the United States had the surname Porterfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 45,538 Americans. It ranked 5,160th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Porterfield getting more or less common?

More common. 6,611 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,780 in 2010, up 2.6%.

The surname Porterfield

A place surname, carried by 6,780 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex P636

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Porterfield is more common than 96.8% of them.

Origin

From porter + field, a Scottish topographic surname from the hereditary lands owned by a porter.

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

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 6,780 people named Porterfield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 45,538 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,611.

#5,160

rank among US surnames

6,780

people in 2010

2.3

per 100,000 Americans

+2.6%

change since 2000 (was #4,878)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,151	Woodcock	6,794	45,444
#5,152	Koller	6,792	45,457
#5,153	Dionne	6,788	45,484
#5,154	Prior	6,787	45,491
#5,155	Eby	6,786	45,497
#5,156	Hetrick	6,784	45,511
#5,158	Furlong	6,783	45,518

Who is named Porterfield

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

81% of people named Porterfield identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 81%
Black (not Hispanic) 15%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Porterfield

Porter

Porterfield has the Soundex code P636, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P636.

Questions

Where does the surname Porterfield come from?: From porter + field, a Scottish topographic surname from the hereditary lands owned by a porter.
How common is the surname Porterfield?: 6,780 people in the United States had the surname Porterfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 45,538 Americans. It ranked 5,160th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Porterfield?: In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Porterfield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Porterfield?: Porterfield is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Porterfield getting more or less common?: More common. 6,611 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,780 in 2010, up 2.6%.