How common is the surname Puleo?

3,115 people in the United States had the surname Puleo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,116 Americans. It ranked 10,339th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Puleo?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Puleo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Puleo getting more or less common?

More common. 3,036 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,115 in 2010, up 2.6%.

The surname Puleo

A surname, carried by 3,115 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex P400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Puleo is more common than 93.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,115 people named Puleo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 99,116 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,036.

#10,339

rank among US surnames

3,115

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+2.6%

change since 2000 (was #9,827)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,332	Hauer	3,118	99,020
#10,334	Cheshire	3,117	99,052
#10,337	Madson	3,116	99,084
#10,339	Leroux	3,115	99,116
#10,346	Truelove	3,114	99,148
#10,348	Küng	3,113	99,179

Who is named Puleo

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

93% of people named Puleo identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.7%
Two or more races 1.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Puleo

Puleo has the Soundex code P400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P400.

Questions

How common is the surname Puleo?: 3,115 people in the United States had the surname Puleo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,116 Americans. It ranked 10,339th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Puleo?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Puleo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Puleo getting more or less common?: More common. 3,036 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,115 in 2010, up 2.6%.