How common is the surname Woodrum?

3,392 people in the United States had the surname Woodrum in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 91,022 Americans. It ranked 9,583rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Woodrum?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Woodrum identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Woodrum getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,424 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,392 in 2010, down 0.9%.

The surname Woodrum

A surname, carried by 3,392 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W365

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Woodrum is more common than 94.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,392 people named Woodrum in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 91,022 Americans. That is down 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,424.

#9,583

rank among US surnames

3,392

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

-0.9%

change since 2000 (was #8,808)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,578	Enoch	3,394	90,968
#9,581	Scheid	3,393	90,995
#9,583	Woodrum	3,392	91,022
#9,587	Kegley	3,391	91,049
#9,590	Cendejas	3,390	91,075
#9,592	Bicknell	3,389	91,102

Who is named Woodrum

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

95% of people named Woodrum identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
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 Woodrum

Woodring

Woodrum has the Soundex code W365, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W365.

Questions

How common is the surname Woodrum?: 3,392 people in the United States had the surname Woodrum in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 91,022 Americans. It ranked 9,583rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Woodrum?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Woodrum identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Woodrum getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,424 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,392 in 2010, down 0.9%.