How common is the surname Westhoff?

2,131 people in the United States had the surname Westhoff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 144,883 Americans. It ranked 14,105th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Westhoff?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Westhoff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Westhoff getting more or less common?

More common. 1,967 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,131 in 2010, up 8.3%.

The surname Westhoff

A surname, carried by 2,131 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W231

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Westhoff is more common than 91.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,131 people named Westhoff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 144,883 Americans. That is up 8.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,967.

#14,105

rank among US surnames

2,131

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+8.3%

change since 2000 (was #14,054)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,096	Vanpatten	2,132	144,815
#14,105	Heeter	2,131	144,883
#14,111	Shankar	2,130	144,951
#14,113	Militello	2,129	145,019

Who is named Westhoff

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

96% of people named Westhoff identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Westhoff

Westhoff has the Soundex code W231, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W231.

Questions

How common is the surname Westhoff?: 2,131 people in the United States had the surname Westhoff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 144,883 Americans. It ranked 14,105th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Westhoff?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Westhoff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Westhoff getting more or less common?: More common. 1,967 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,131 in 2010, up 8.3%.