The surname Poth
A German surname, carried by 1,031 people in the United States.
Pronounced /poʊθ/ 1 syllable Soundex P300
Origin
German origin
North German surname, from Middle Low German pütte (“pool, puddle”), from Old Saxon putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti.
One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,031 people named Poth in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 299,462 Americans. That is down 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,056.
Who is named Poth
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Poth identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 1.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 4.3%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Poth has the Soundex code P300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P300.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Poth come from?
- North German surname, from Middle Low German pütte (“pool, puddle”), from Old Saxon putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti.
- How common is the surname Poth?
- 1,031 people in the United States had the surname Poth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 299,462 Americans. It ranked 24,325th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Poth?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Poth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- How do you pronounce Poth?
- Poth is /poʊθ/, one syllable.
- Is the surname Poth getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,056 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,031 in 2010, down 2.4%.