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    The surname Pounders

    A surname, carried by 2,155 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P536

    Pounders: #13,985 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pounders #13,985, 2,155 people Pounders: #13,985 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pounders #13,985, 2,155 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pounders is more common than 91.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,155 people named Pounders in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 143,269 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,120.

    #13,985
    rank among US surnames
    2,155
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.7%
    change since 2000 (was #13,207)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,976Sarkar2,157143,137
    #13,981Arauz2,156143,203
    #13,985Chatterjee2,155143,269
    #13,991Arellanes2,154143,336

    Who is named Pounders

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

    93% of people named Pounders identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.1%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pounders

    Pounders has the Soundex code P536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P536.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Pounders?
    2,155 people in the United States had the surname Pounders in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 143,269 Americans. It ranked 13,985th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pounders?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Pounders identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Pounders getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,120 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,155 in 2010, up 1.7%.