How common is the surname Sant?

1,441 people in the United States had the surname Sant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 214,258 Americans. It ranked 18,939th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sant?

In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Sant identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Sant getting more or less common?

More common. 1,266 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,441 in 2010, up 14%.

The surname Sant

A surname, carried by 1,441 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S530

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sant is more common than 88.3% of them.

Origin

* As an English and French surname, variant of Saint (as a Dutch surname, from a doublet, sint; also Vansant). * As an Italian surname, variant of Santo. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Sand, itself from the English noun sand. * As an Indian (Maharashtra)/Hindi surname, from संत (sant).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,441 people named Sant in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 214,258 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,266.

#18,939

rank among US surnames

1,441

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+13.8%

change since 2000 (was #19,695)

Who is named Sant

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

78% of people named Sant identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 78%
Asian and Pacific Islander 11%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
Two or more races 3.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sant

Sant has the Soundex code S530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S530.

Questions

Where does the surname Sant come from?: * As an English and French surname, variant of Saint (as a Dutch surname, from a doublet, sint; also Vansant). * As an Italian surname, variant of Santo. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Sand, itself from the English noun sand. * As an Indian (Maharashtra)/Hindi surname, from संत (sant).
How common is the surname Sant?: 1,441 people in the United States had the surname Sant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 214,258 Americans. It ranked 18,939th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sant?: In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Sant identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Sant getting more or less common?: More common. 1,266 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,441 in 2010, up 14%.