How common is the surname Vanderhoof?

2,335 people in the United States had the surname Vanderhoof in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 132,225 Americans. It ranked 13,124th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Vanderhoof getting more or less common?

More common. 2,327 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,335 in 2010, up 0.3%.

The surname Vanderhoof

A surname, carried by 2,335 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex V536

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vanderhoof is more common than 91.9% of them.

Origin

Americanized from a Dutch surname, from van der hoef. Compare Vanderhoef.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,335 people named Vanderhoof in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 132,225 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,327.

#13,124

rank among US surnames

2,335

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+0.3%

change since 2000 (was #12,261)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,115	Leming	2,337	132,112
#13,121	Hinnant	2,336	132,168
#13,124	Mowrey	2,335	132,225
#13,127	Flannigan	2,334	132,282
#13,132	Meldrum	2,332	132,395
#13,133	Hutsell	2,331	132,452

Who is named Vanderhoof

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

93% of people named Vanderhoof identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as two or more races and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Two or more races 2.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Vanderhoof

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

Questions

Where does the surname Vanderhoof come from?: Americanized from a Dutch surname, from van der hoef. Compare Vanderhoef.
How common is the surname Vanderhoof?: 2,335 people in the United States had the surname Vanderhoof in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 132,225 Americans. It ranked 13,124th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vanderhoof?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Vanderhoof identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as two or more races.
Is the surname Vanderhoof getting more or less common?: More common. 2,327 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,335 in 2010, up 0.3%.