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    The surname Pounds

    A surname, carried by 6,838 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex P532

    Pounds: #5,121 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pounds #5,121, 6,838 people Pounds: #5,121 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pounds #5,121, 6,838 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pounds is more common than 96.8% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,838 people named Pounds in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 45,151 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,564.

    #5,121
    rank among US surnames
    6,838
    people in 2010
    2.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.2%
    change since 2000 (was #4,918)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,112McGinley6,85145,066
    #5,113Styles6,84745,092
    #5,114Lamont6,84545,105
    #5,116Dalrymple6,84345,118
    #5,117Bice6,84145,132
    #5,118Philips6,84045,138
    #5,119Yarborough6,83945,145

    Who is named Pounds

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

    68% of people named Pounds identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 68%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 26%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pounds

    Pounds has the Soundex code P532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P532.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Pounds?
    6,838 people in the United States had the surname Pounds in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 45,151 Americans. It ranked 5,121st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pounds?
    In the 2010 Census, 68% of people named Pounds identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Pounds getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,564 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,838 in 2010, up 4.2%.