The surname Pouncey
A surname, carried by 1,285 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P520
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,285 people named Pouncey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 240,269 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,265.
#20,617
rank among US surnames
1,285
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+1.6%
change since 2000 (was #19,710)
Who is named Pouncey
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
59% of people named Pouncey identified as white (not Hispanic), 36% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 59%
- Black (not Hispanic) 36%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Pouncey has the Soundex code P520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P520.
Questions
- How common is the surname Pouncey?
- 1,285 people in the United States had the surname Pouncey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 240,269 Americans. It ranked 20,617th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Pouncey?
- In the 2010 Census, 59% of people named Pouncey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 36% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Pouncey getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,265 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,285 in 2010, up 1.6%.