# Pound (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/pound/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,206 |
| US rank (2010) | 10,046 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 96,302 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.1% (3,111 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /paʊnd/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from both senses of the noun pound meaning "measure of weight" and "enclosure." * As a German surname, variant of Pfund, or as a north/Low German surname, from the variants of it, Pund, Pundt, all meaning "pound," thus related to the above.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pound in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 89% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pound in the United States and Canada.

## People named Pound

- Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (1885–1972)
- Roscoe Pound, American legal scholar and educator (1870–1964)
- Robert Pound, American physicist (1919–2010)
- Lorna Gray, American actress (1917-2017)

## Similar surnames

Pond, Pineda, Pinto, Puente, Pinedo, Pandya, Pando, Ponte, Penate, Pandey, Panetta, Peinado.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.