How common is the surname Pylant?

1,351 people in the United States had the surname Pylant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 228,531 Americans. It ranked 19,885th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pylant?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Pylant identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Pylant getting more or less common?

More common. 1,246 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,351 in 2010, up 8.4%.

The surname Pylant

A surname, carried by 1,351 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P453

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pylant is more common than 87.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,351 people named Pylant in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 228,531 Americans. That is up 8.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,246.

#19,885

rank among US surnames

1,351

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+8.4%

change since 2000 (was #19,942)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,878	Jacobowitz	1,352	228,362
#19,885	Farabaugh	1,351	228,531

Who is named Pylant

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

95% of people named Pylant identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pylant

Pylant has the Soundex code P453, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P453.

Questions

How common is the surname Pylant?: 1,351 people in the United States had the surname Pylant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 228,531 Americans. It ranked 19,885th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pylant?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Pylant identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Pylant getting more or less common?: More common. 1,246 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,351 in 2010, up 8.4%.