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The surname Vandergrift

A surname, carried by 1,393 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex V536

Vandergrift: #19,398 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Vandergrift #19,398, 1,393 people Vandergrift: #19,398 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Vandergrift #19,398, 1,393 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vandergrift is more common than 88% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,393 people named Vandergrift in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,641 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,324.

#19,398
rank among US surnames
1,393
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+5.2%
change since 2000 (was #19,028)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#19,390Rifkin1,394221,482
#19,398Zaborowski1,393221,641

Who is named Vandergrift

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

92% of people named Vandergrift identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 4.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
  • Two or more races 1.1%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Vandergrift

Vandergrift has the Soundex code V536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V536.

Questions

How common is the surname Vandergrift?
1,393 people in the United States had the surname Vandergrift in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,641 Americans. It ranked 19,398th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vandergrift?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Vandergrift identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Vandergrift getting more or less common?
More common. 1,324 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,393 in 2010, up 5.2%.