How common is the surname Vanatta?

2,578 people in the United States had the surname Vanatta in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 119,762 Americans. It ranked 12,089th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Vanatta?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Vanatta identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Vanatta getting more or less common?

More common. 2,432 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,578 in 2010, up 6.0%.

The surname Vanatta

A surname, carried by 2,578 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex V530

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vanatta is more common than 92.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,578 people named Vanatta in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 119,762 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,432.

#12,089

rank among US surnames

2,578

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+6%

change since 2000 (was #11,795)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,082	Fujimoto	2,580	119,669
#12,083	Marple	2,579	119,715
#12,089	Huffer	2,578	119,762
#12,095	Sommerville	2,577	119,808

Who is named Vanatta

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

95% of people named Vanatta identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Vanatta

Vannatta

Vanatta has the Soundex code V530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V530.

Questions

How common is the surname Vanatta?: 2,578 people in the United States had the surname Vanatta in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 119,762 Americans. It ranked 12,089th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vanatta?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Vanatta identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Vanatta getting more or less common?: More common. 2,432 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,578 in 2010, up 6.0%.