Pound

2,921 people in the United States were counted with the surname Pound in the 2020 census, making it the 10,482nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 102,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,921
Rank: 10,482nd
How common: 1 in 102,000
Per 100,000: 0.98

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from both senses of the noun pound meaning "measure of weight" and "enclosure.".

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Pound described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 84.5%
Black, not Hispanic 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Pound

Ezra Pound (1885–1972)American poet and critic
Dudley Pound (1877–1943)Royal Navy admiral of the fleet
Roscoe Pound (1870–1964)American legal scholar and educator
Dick Pound (born 1942)Canadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, British Empire Games gold medallist, International Olympic Committee vice president, university chancellor, lawyer
Robert Pound (1919–2010)American physicist

People named Pound with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Pound

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.