How common is the surname Vanhouten?

4,383 people in the United States had the surname Vanhouten in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,442 Americans. It ranked 7,582nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Vanhouten?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Vanhouten identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Vanhouten getting more or less common?

Less common. 4,391 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,383 in 2010, down 0.2%.

The surname Vanhouten

A Dutch surname, carried by 4,383 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex V535

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vanhouten is more common than 95.3% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

Dutch van (“of”) + hout (“wood”).

One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,383 people named Vanhouten in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,442 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,391.

#7,582

rank among US surnames

4,383

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

-0.2%

change since 2000 (was #7,036)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,575	Devera	4,386	70,393
#7,578	Wideman	4,385	70,409
#7,580	Mars	4,384	70,426
#7,582	Vanhouten	4,383	70,442
#7,584	Wilfong	4,382	70,458
#7,585	Eidson	4,381	70,474
#7,589	Curcio	4,380	70,490

Who is named Vanhouten

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

96% of people named Vanhouten identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Vanhouten

Vanhouten has the Soundex code V535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V535.

Other Dutch surnames

All 167 Dutch surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Vanhouten come from?: Dutch van (“of”) + hout (“wood”).
How common is the surname Vanhouten?: 4,383 people in the United States had the surname Vanhouten in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,442 Americans. It ranked 7,582nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vanhouten?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Vanhouten identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Vanhouten getting more or less common?: Less common. 4,391 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,383 in 2010, down 0.2%.