How common is the surname Sandusky?

2,758 people in the United States had the surname Sandusky in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 111,945 Americans. It ranked 11,423rd of 162,253 surnames.

How do you pronounce Sandusky?

Sandusky is /sænˈdʌski/, 3 syllables.

Is the surname Sandusky getting more or less common?

More common. 2,755 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,758 in 2010, up 0.1%.

The surname Sandusky

A surname, carried by 2,758 people in the United States.

Pronounced /sænˈdʌski/ 3 syllables Soundex S532

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sandusky is more common than 93% of them.

Origin

From Polish Sadowski, modified in the United States under the influence of etymology 1.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,758 people named Sandusky in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 111,945 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,755.

#11,423

rank among US surnames

2,758

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+0.1%

change since 2000 (was #10,657)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,414	Brummer	2,761	111,824
#11,415	Schober	2,760	111,864
#11,420	Polzin	2,759	111,905
#11,423	Greig	2,758	111,945
#11,428	Popa	2,757	111,986
#11,430	Eshelman	2,756	112,027

Who is named Sandusky

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

91% of people named Sandusky identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sandusky

Sandusky has the Soundex code S532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S532.

Questions

Where does the surname Sandusky come from?: From Polish Sadowski, modified in the United States under the influence of etymology 1.
How common is the surname Sandusky?: 2,758 people in the United States had the surname Sandusky in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 111,945 Americans. It ranked 11,423rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sandusky?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Sandusky identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
How do you pronounce Sandusky?: Sandusky is /sænˈdʌski/, 3 syllables.
Is the surname Sandusky getting more or less common?: More common. 2,755 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,758 in 2010, up 0.1%.