How common is the surname Putnam?

18,340 people in the United States had the surname Putnam in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 16,835 Americans. It ranked 1,971st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Putnam?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Putnam identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Putnam getting more or less common?

More common. 17,990 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 18,340 in 2010, up 1.9%.

The surname Putnam

A surname, carried by 18,340 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P355

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Putnam is more common than 98.8% of them.

Origin

A reduced variant of Puttenham.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 18,340 people named Putnam in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 16,835 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 17,990.

#1,971

rank among US surnames

18,340

people in 2010

6.2

per 100,000 Americans

+1.9%

change since 2000 (was #1,831)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,962	McHugh	18,422	16,760
#1,963	Negron	18,413	16,768
#1,964	Cope	18,410	16,771
#1,965	Triplett	18,408	16,772
#1,966	Hathaway	18,401	16,779
#1,967	Salcedo	18,387	16,792
#1,968	Presley	18,384	16,794

Who is named Putnam

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

94% of people named Putnam identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Putnam

Putnam has the Soundex code P355, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P355.

Questions

Where does the surname Putnam come from?: A reduced variant of Puttenham.
How common is the surname Putnam?: 18,340 people in the United States had the surname Putnam in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 16,835 Americans. It ranked 1,971st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Putnam?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Putnam identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Putnam getting more or less common?: More common. 17,990 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 18,340 in 2010, up 1.9%.