The surname Poteat
A surname, carried by 3,465 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P330
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,465 people named Poteat in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 89,104 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,300.
#9,384
rank among US surnames
3,465
people in 2010
1.2
per 100,000 Americans
+5%
change since 2000 (was #9,102)
Who is named Poteat
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
62% of people named Poteat identified as white (not Hispanic), 33% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 62%
- Black (not Hispanic) 33%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Poteat
Poteat has the Soundex code P330, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P330.
Questions
- How common is the surname Poteat?
- 3,465 people in the United States had the surname Poteat in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,104 Americans. It ranked 9,384th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Poteat?
- In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Poteat identified as white (not Hispanic), and 33% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Poteat getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,300 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,465 in 2010, up 5.0%.