How rare is the last name Pointer?

7,024 people in the United States have the last name Pointer, about 1 in 42,554. It ranks #4,873 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

last name

POINTER

#4,873

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,024
About
1 in 42,554
This common or more
58.2%
Who bears it

Of the 7,024 people with the last name Pointer, 45.8% reported their origin as Black, 44.8% as White and 5.3% as two or more races. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Exactly as common as Pointer

1 other last name also has 7,024 people.

#4,873 Timmerman · 7,024

Either side of Pointer

#4,871 Beale · 7,026#4,871 Nation · 7,026#4,873 Timmerman · 7,024#4,875 Tallman · 7,022

Spelled almost the same

5 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Pointer, most common first.

#3,233 Ponder · 10,885#7,951 Poynter · 3,997#50,074 Pontier · 452#56,329 Pounder · 392#102,164 Ponter · 188

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