American Surname

Frequency of American in the US

2000 US Census

Accoring to the US Census Bureau, AMERICAN ranked #83,618 in frequency out of 151,671 surnames for which statistics were released from the 2000 Census. 209 people, or approximately 1 in every 1,290,728 individuals in the US had this surname in 2000.

Name	Rank	Count	Percent
			Non-Hispanic					Hispanic (of any race)
			White	Black	American Indian/ Alaskan Native	Asian/ Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Hispanic (of any race)
AMERICAN	83,618	209	55.50%	11.48%	2.87%	2.87%	4.78%	22.49%
US Top 151,671		269,762,087	69.8%	11.8%	0.7%	3.7%	1.7%	12.3%

Source: "Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000", US Census Bureau.

1990 US Census

Accoring to the US Census Bureau, AMERICAN ranked #88,555 in frequency out of 88,799 surnames for which statistics were released from the 1990 Census.

Source: "Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 1990", US Census Bureau.

American Graves on Histopolis

Histopolis currently has 0 grave(s) with the surname American.

Resource Links for American

American Surname Resource Center [SurnameWeb.org]
http://www.surnameweb.org/American/surnames.htm

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Surnames that Sound Like American

The surname American has a Soundex code of A562. The following 50 surname(s) may sound similar to American since they share the same Soundex code.

Ahnmark	Aimers	Amargiotes	Amargo	Amarias	Amarosa
Amarosso	Amercon	America	Americanhorse	Americanian	Americano
Americo	Amerige	Amerkhanian	Amerosa	Amerson	Amherst
Amhurst	Amiraux	Amires	Amirkanian	Amirkhanian	Ammersman
Ammerson	Amores	Amorese	Amoriza	Amoros	Amorosa
Amorosano	Amorose	Amorosi	Amorosino	Amoroso	Amorosso
Amorowich	Amoruso	Amrich	Amrose	Amrozewicz	Amrstrong
Amruso	Anawrok	Anerson	Anorson	Anreozzi	Anrico
Anrig	Aymerich

Combination Surnames Containing American

Histopolis has information on the following combination or hyphenated surnames contain the surname American:

American Horse	American-Horse