How common is the surname Pound?

3,206 people in the United States had the surname Pound in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,302 Americans. It ranked 10,046th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Pound?

Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (1885–1972), followed by Roscoe Pound.

Where is the surname Pound most common?

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

How do you pronounce Pound?

Pound is /paʊnd/, one syllable.

Is the surname Pound getting more or less common?

More common. 3,111 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,206 in 2010, up 3.1%.

The surname Pound

A surname, carried by 3,206 people in the United States.

Pronounced /paʊnd/ 1 syllable Soundex P530

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pound is more common than 93.8% of them.

Origin

* 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.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,206 people named Pound in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,302 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,111.

#10,046

rank among US surnames

3,206

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+3.1%

change since 2000 (was #9,585)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,041	Caster	3,208	96,242
#10,044	Lieb	3,207	96,272
#10,046	Pound	3,206	96,302
#10,050	Dasher	3,205	96,332

Who is named Pound

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

89% of people named Pound identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Pounds

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

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)

Notable Pounds come mostly from the United States (3) and Canada (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pound

Pond

Pound has the Soundex code P530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P530.

Questions

Where does the surname Pound come from?: * 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.
How common is the surname Pound?: 3,206 people in the United States had the surname Pound in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,302 Americans. It ranked 10,046th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pound?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Pound identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Pound?: Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (1885–1972), followed by Roscoe Pound.
Where is the surname Pound most common?: Wikidata records people named Pound in the United States and Canada.
How do you pronounce Pound?: Pound is /paʊnd/, one syllable.
Is the surname Pound getting more or less common?: More common. 3,111 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,206 in 2010, up 3.1%.