How common is the surname Votaw?

1,730 people in the United States had the surname Votaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 178,466 Americans. It ranked 16,582nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Votaw?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Votaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Votaw getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,785 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,730 in 2010, down 3.1%.

The surname Votaw

A surname, carried by 1,730 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex V300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Votaw is more common than 89.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,730 people named Votaw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 178,466 Americans. That is down 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,785.

#16,582

rank among US surnames

1,730

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-3.1%

change since 2000 (was #15,154)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,575	Gaw	1,731	178,363
#16,582	Aune	1,730	178,466
#16,586	Curto	1,729	178,569

Who is named Votaw

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

93% of people named Votaw identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Votaw

Votaw has the Soundex code V300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V300.

Questions

How common is the surname Votaw?: 1,730 people in the United States had the surname Votaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 178,466 Americans. It ranked 16,582nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Votaw?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Votaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Votaw getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,785 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,730 in 2010, down 3.1%.