Surnames that grew fastest

Change in the number of people carrying each surname between the 2000 and 2010 Census, for names held by at least 10,000 people. The list largely tracks immigration from China, South Asia and Latin America in that decade.

Growing

#	Surname	Origin	Change	US rank	People in the US
1	Zheng		+136.6%	1,409	25,242
2	Begum		+128%	2,924	12,255
3	Jiang	Chinese	+126.2%	1,849	19,409
4	Gao		+125.2%	2,948	12,172
5	Mohamed		+123.8%	1,257	27,972
6	Kaur		+123.4%	711	48,753
7	He	Chinese	+117.7%	2,373	15,363
8	Zhao	Chinese	+116%	1,613	22,301
9	Zhang	Chinese	+111.2%	472	70,125
10	Xu	Chinese	+109.5%	1,381	25,622
11	Chowdhury	Bengali	+107.5%	2,997	11,961
12	Haro		+106.1%	3,122	11,547
13	Zhu	Chinese	+102.4%	1,694	21,265
14	Zhou		+102.3%	1,532	23,437
15	Jin		+101.2%	3,421	10,432
16	Caro		+99.2%	3,545	10,064
17	Guo		+98.9%	2,975	12,048
18	Jain	Sanskrit	+93.9%	3,094	11,626
19	Li	Chinese	+93.4%	273	111,786
20	Sharma	Hindi	+92.1%	1,236	28,559
21	Resendiz	Spanish	+90.1%	2,500	14,457
22	Bianco		+85.7%	2,381	15,278
23	Ibrahim	Arabic	+85.3%	2,290	15,915
24	Feng	Chinese	+84.4%	3,351	10,687
25	Villatoro		+84.2%	3,394	10,535
26	Joshi	Nepali	+84.2%	3,542	10,089
27	Gupta		+83.7%	1,886	19,057
28	Hassan	Arabic	+81.8%	1,652	21,801
29	Ahmed	Arabic	+81.6%	720	48,319
30	Argueta	Spanish	+80.1%	2,054	17,540
31	Kumar		+79%	1,357	25,986
32	Islam		+78.8%	3,354	10,670
33	Orellana		+78.4%	1,319	26,651
34	Nolasco		+72.8%	3,102	11,609
35	Liang	Chinese	+71.3%	1,480	24,140
36	Dong		+70.1%	2,879	12,466
37	Vicente	Spanish	+69.3%	3,326	10,789
38	Rahman	Arabic	+68.8%	1,994	18,097
39	Rodas		+68%	3,193	11,327
40	Heim	German	+67.1%	2,513	14,414
41	Ali	Arabic	+66.3%	559	60,002
42	Hu	Chinese	+65.9%	1,797	19,999
43	Jaimes		+64.8%	2,050	17,573
44	Liu	Chinese	+64.4%	411	78,370
45	Peng	Chinese	+63.7%	3,374	10,575
46	Osorio	Spanish	+63.5%	1,199	29,482
47	Lemus		+63.3%	1,297	27,079
48	Cao		+63.3%	1,989	18,138
49	Khan		+63.1%	427	76,171
50	Vazquez	Spanish	+62.9%	203	138,322
51	Guardado		+62.9%	2,848	12,656
52	Ordonez	Spanish	+62.7%	1,952	18,498
53	Wang	Chinese	+62.6%	282	109,883
54	Huang	Chinese	+61.8%	456	72,328
55	Lin		+61.1%	402	79,508
56	Mateo		+61%	2,623	13,746
57	Sun		+60.8%	1,484	24,058
58	Chen	Chinese	+60.7%	150	169,580
59	Singh	Punjabi	+60.7%	260	116,749
60	Zelaya	Spanish, place	+59.9%	2,886	12,448
61	Matias		+59.5%	3,091	11,635
62	Henriquez	Spanish	+59.4%	2,329	15,657
63	Velazquez	Spanish	+59.2%	530	63,736
64	Bautista	Spanish	+59.2%	558	60,264
65	Monroy	place	+59.2%	2,456	14,673
66	Angeles	Spanish	+59.2%	2,559	14,128
67	Valdovinos		+59.2%	3,517	10,147
68	Pascual	Spanish	+58.7%	2,998	11,959
69	Patel	Gujarati	+58.5%	95	229,973
70	Valladares	Spanish	+58.3%	3,012	11,901
71	Mohammed		+57.9%	2,395	15,132
72	Portillo	Spanish	+57.8%	914	37,890
73	Montiel		+56.7%	2,896	12,376
74	Wu	Chinese	+56.5%	461	71,721
75	Aparicio		+56.5%	2,680	13,437
76	Mejia	Spanish	+56.4%	300	104,057
77	Merino	Spanish	+56.2%	3,073	11,684
78	Pineda	Spanish	+56%	553	60,820
79	Alcantara	Spanish	+55.8%	2,853	12,636
80	Pan	Chinese	+55.5%	2,847	12,664
81	Stoltzfus		+55.4%	2,311	15,786
82	Lu	Chinese	+55.1%	978	35,628
83	Weiler	German	+55.1%	3,515	10,160
84	Mondragon	Spanish	+54.4%	1,941	18,620
85	Shah	Persian, occupational	+54.1%	573	58,287
86	Linares	Spanish	+53.8%	1,820	19,688
87	Arana		+53.8%	3,347	10,698
88	Perdomo	Spanish	+53.7%	3,548	10,058
89	Tejada	Spanish	+53.6%	2,432	14,903
90	Cardoso		+53.6%	3,197	11,304
91	Benitez	Spanish	+53.4%	666	51,288
92	Cortes	Spanish	+53.4%	751	46,229
93	Jacobo		+53.2%	3,105	11,590
94	Godinez	Spanish	+52.9%	1,665	21,640
95	Marroquin	Spanish	+52.7%	1,822	19,661
96	Hussain	Arabic	+52.7%	2,146	16,909
97	Bolanos	Spanish	+52.7%	3,029	11,829
98	Sarmiento	Spanish	+52.6%	2,631	13,710
99	Su	Chinese	+52.5%	2,779	12,973
100	Tavarez		+52.5%	3,503	10,201

Shrinking

#	Surname	Origin	Change	US rank	People in the US
1	Helm	German, occupational	-30.2%	3,087	11,649
2	William	Norman	-22.1%	2,694	13,373
3	Helms		-19.4%	1,493	23,949
4	Weller		-18.6%	2,615	13,774
5	Bell		-16.7%	106	220,599
6	Eller		-16.2%	3,250	11,103
7	Ball	place	-14.8%	508	66,059
8	Ring	occupational	-14.8%	2,226	16,381
9	Walters	patronymic	-14.3%	350	89,376
10	Hall	place	-14%	45	407,076
11	Van		-13.8%	3,320	10,798
12	Rodriquez		-13.2%	1,572	22,892
13	Small	English	-12.3%	861	40,212
14	Coy	occupational	-10.8%	2,597	13,875
15	Mark		-10.4%	2,537	14,265
16	Ferry	English, occupational	-7.8%	3,467	10,312
17	Berman		-7.6%	2,271	16,025
18	Fallon	Irish, patronymic	-6%	2,994	11,974
19	Wiles	patronymic	-5.1%	2,754	13,105
20	Foy		-5%	2,786	12,952
21	Russ		-4.9%	2,237	16,300
22	Weiner		-4.7%	2,546	14,208
23	Dick	patronymic	-4.6%	1,718	20,923
24	Will	patronymic	-4.6%	2,869	12,575
25	Silverman		-4.3%	2,463	14,636
26	Cary		-4.2%	3,138	11,506
27	Herr		-3.9%	2,990	11,980
28	Carl		-3.1%	3,071	11,689
29	Ruth		-3%	2,414	15,012
30	Hein		-2.8%	2,865	12,586
31	Gee		-2.5%	1,547	23,241
32	Forman	occupational	-2.5%	3,015	11,894
33	Levine	Hebrew	-2.4%	1,032	33,637
34	Epstein	German	-2.4%	2,786	12,952
35	Whitman		-2.2%	1,851	19,399
36	Box		-2.2%	3,538	10,098
37	Barger		-2.1%	2,528	14,324
38	Lewandowski	Polish	-2.1%	3,110	11,577
39	Gay	nickname	-2%	1,094	32,025
40	Platt	place	-1.9%	2,006	18,022
41	Graf	German	-1.9%	2,710	13,301
42	Bagwell		-1.9%	3,460	10,324
43	Grossman	German	-1.8%	2,067	17,484
44	Rosenthal	German	-1.8%	2,194	16,583
45	Weinstein	German, occupational	-1.8%	2,659	13,563
46	Goldstein	German	-1.6%	1,173	29,938
47	Toth	Hungarian	-1.6%	1,826	19,606
48	Bird		-1.5%	1,041	33,457
49	Shapiro	Yiddish	-1.5%	1,469	24,335
50	Beaver	place	-1.5%	1,665	21,640

Increases above 150% are left out: they come from changes in how the Census coded names, not real growth.