How common is the surname Pott?

719 people in the United States had the surname Pott in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 429,410 Americans. It ranked 32,079th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pott?

In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Pott identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Pott getting more or less common?

Less common. 739 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 719 in 2010, down 2.7%.

The surname Pott

A German surname, carried by 719 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pott is more common than 80.2% of them.

Origin

German origin

* As an English surname (and north German adaptations), from the noun pot. Compare Potter. * Also as a north German surname, from Low German Pütt (“pool; mine shaft, pit”) (high German Pfütze).

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 719 people named Pott in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 429,410 Americans. That is down 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 739.

#32,079

rank among US surnames

719

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

-2.7%

change since 2000 (was #29,964)

Who is named Pott

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

90% of people named Pott identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pott

Pott has the Soundex code P300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P300.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Pott come from?: * As an English surname (and north German adaptations), from the noun pot. Compare Potter. * Also as a north German surname, from Low German Pütt (“pool; mine shaft, pit”) (high German Pfütze).
How common is the surname Pott?: 719 people in the United States had the surname Pott in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 429,410 Americans. It ranked 32,079th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pott?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Pott identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Pott getting more or less common?: Less common. 739 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 719 in 2010, down 2.7%.