How common is the surname Taube?

1,460 people in the United States had the surname Taube in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 211,470 Americans. It ranked 18,778th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Taube?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Taube identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Taube?

Mortimer Taube, American librarian (1910–1965), followed by Karl Taube.

Where is the surname Taube most common?

Wikidata records people named Taube in the United States, Poland and Sweden.

Is the surname Taube getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,514 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,460 in 2010, down 3.6%.

The surname Taube

A surname, carried by 1,460 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex T100

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Taube is more common than 88.4% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,460 people named Taube in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 211,470 Americans. That is down 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,514.

#18,778

rank among US surnames

1,460

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-3.6%

change since 2000 (was #17,234)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,778	Quinney	1,460	211,470
#18,786	Weisenberger	1,459	211,614

Who is named Taube

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

95% of people named Taube identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Taubes

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Mortimer Taube
American librarian (1910–1965)
Karl Taube
American Mesoamericanist, born 1957
Carlo Sigmund Taube
Austrian composer, 1897–1944
Ann Zacharias
Actress, born 1956

Notable Taubes come mostly from the United States (2), Poland (1) and Sweden (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Taube

Taube has the Soundex code T100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T100.

Questions

How common is the surname Taube?: 1,460 people in the United States had the surname Taube in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 211,470 Americans. It ranked 18,778th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Taube?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Taube identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Taube?: Mortimer Taube, American librarian (1910–1965), followed by Karl Taube.
Where is the surname Taube most common?: Wikidata records people named Taube in the United States, Poland and Sweden.
Is the surname Taube getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,514 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,460 in 2010, down 3.6%.