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    The surname Straughn

    A surname, carried by 1,648 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S362

    Straughn: #17,182 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Straughn #17,182, 1,648 people Straughn: #17,182 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Straughn #17,182, 1,648 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Straughn is more common than 89.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,648 people named Straughn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 187,346 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,575.

    #17,182
    rank among US surnames
    1,648
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.6%
    change since 2000 (was #16,721)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,176Haslett1,649187,232
    #17,182Dauzat1,648187,346

    Who is named Straughn

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

    69% of people named Straughn identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 22%
    • Two or more races 3.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Straughn

    Straughn has the Soundex code S362, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S362.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Straughn?
    1,648 people in the United States had the surname Straughn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 187,346 Americans. It ranked 17,182nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Straughn?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Straughn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Straughn getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,575 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,648 in 2010, up 4.6%.