How common is the surname Pottorff?

1,118 people in the United States had the surname Pottorff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 276,159 Americans. It ranked 22,892nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pottorff?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Pottorff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Pottorff getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,147 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,118 in 2010, down 2.5%.

The surname Pottorff

A surname, carried by 1,118 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P361

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pottorff is more common than 85.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,118 people named Pottorff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 276,159 Americans. That is down 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,147.

#22,892

rank among US surnames

1,118

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-2.5%

change since 2000 (was #21,295)

Who is named Pottorff

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

95% of people named Pottorff identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pottorff

Petroff

Pottorff has the Soundex code P361, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P361.

Questions

How common is the surname Pottorff?: 1,118 people in the United States had the surname Pottorff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 276,159 Americans. It ranked 22,892nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pottorff?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Pottorff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Pottorff getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,147 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,118 in 2010, down 2.5%.