The surname Poulton
A surname, carried by 1,502 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P435
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,502 people named Poulton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 205,556 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,451.
#18,431
rank among US surnames
1,502
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+3.5%
change since 2000 (was #17,791)
Who is named Poulton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Poulton identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as two or more races and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Poulton has the Soundex code P435, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P435.
Questions
- How common is the surname Poulton?
- 1,502 people in the United States had the surname Poulton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,556 Americans. It ranked 18,431st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Poulton?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Poulton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Poulton getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,451 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,502 in 2010, up 3.5%.