How common is the surname Vanderpool?

6,257 people in the United States had the surname Vanderpool in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 49,344 Americans. It ranked 5,557th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Vanderpool?

In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Vanderpool identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Vanderpool?

Sylvia Robinson, American singer, record producer, and executive (1936–2011).

Where is the surname Vanderpool most common?

Wikidata records people named Vanderpool in the United States.

Is the surname Vanderpool getting more or less common?

Less common. 6,284 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,257 in 2010, down 0.4%.

The surname Vanderpool

A surname, carried by 6,257 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). Vanderpool is more common than 96.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 6,257 people named Vanderpool in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 49,344 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 6,284.

#5,557

rank among US surnames

6,257

people in 2010

2.1

per 100,000 Americans

-0.4%

change since 2000 (was #5,126)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,553	Schatz	6,261	49,312
#5,554	Oster	6,259	49,328
#5,555	Milne	6,258	49,336
#5,557	Gilligan	6,257	49,344
#5,560	Rood	6,254	49,368

Who is named Vanderpool

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

88% of people named Vanderpool identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 88%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.0%
Two or more races 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Vanderpools

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Sylvia Robinson
American singer, record producer, and executive (1936–2011)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Vanderpool

Vanderpool 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 Vanderpool?: 6,257 people in the United States had the surname Vanderpool in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 49,344 Americans. It ranked 5,557th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vanderpool?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Vanderpool identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Vanderpool?: Sylvia Robinson, American singer, record producer, and executive (1936–2011).
Where is the surname Vanderpool most common?: Wikidata records people named Vanderpool in the United States.
Is the surname Vanderpool getting more or less common?: Less common. 6,284 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,257 in 2010, down 0.4%.