The surname Touchstone
A surname, carried by 1,905 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T235
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,905 people named Touchstone in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 162,071 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,913.
#15,391
rank among US surnames
1,905
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
-0.4%
change since 2000 (was #14,353)
Who is named Touchstone
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
87% of people named Touchstone identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 87%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Touchstone
Touchstone has the Soundex code T235, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T235.
Questions
- How common is the surname Touchstone?
- 1,905 people in the United States had the surname Touchstone in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 162,071 Americans. It ranked 15,391st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Touchstone?
- In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Touchstone identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Touchstone getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,913 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,905 in 2010, down 0.4%.