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    The surname Proffit

    A surname, carried by 1,151 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P613

    Proffit: #22,375 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Proffit #22,375, 1,151 people Proffit: #22,375 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Proffit #22,375, 1,151 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Proffit is more common than 86.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,151 people named Proffit in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 268,241 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,081.

    #22,375
    rank among US surnames
    1,151
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.5%
    change since 2000 (was #22,258)

    Who is named Proffit

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

    89% of people named Proffit identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Proffit

    Proffit has the Soundex code P613, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P613.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Proffit?
    1,151 people in the United States had the surname Proffit in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 268,241 Americans. It ranked 22,375th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Proffit?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Proffit identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Proffit getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,081 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,151 in 2010, up 6.5%.