How common is the surname Routt?

1,904 people in the United States had the surname Routt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 162,156 Americans. It ranked 15,397th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Routt getting more or less common?

More common. 1,775 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,904 in 2010, up 7.3%.

The surname Routt

A surname, carried by 1,904 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex R300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Routt is more common than 90.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,904 people named Routt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 162,156 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,775.

#15,397

rank among US surnames

1,904

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+7.3%

change since 2000 (was #15,217)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,391	Milliman	1,905	162,071
#15,397	Ake	1,904	162,156
#15,402	Frew	1,903	162,241
#15,406	Delfin	1,902	162,327

Who is named Routt

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

80% of people named Routt identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 80%
Black (not Hispanic) 13%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Two or more races 2.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Route

Surnames that sound like Routt

Routt has the Soundex code R300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R300.

Questions

How common is the surname Routt?: 1,904 people in the United States had the surname Routt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 162,156 Americans. It ranked 15,397th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Routt?: In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Routt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Routt getting more or less common?: More common. 1,775 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,904 in 2010, up 7.3%.
What are other spellings of Routt?: Route.