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Webster Dictionary

  1. Pounds

    of Pound

  2. Pounds

    of Pound

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. POUNDS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pounds is ranked #5121 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Pounds surname appeared 6,838 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Pounds.

    68.2% or 4,666 total occurrences were White.
    26.2% or 1,794 total occurrences were Black.
    2.5% or 175 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.9% or 132 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.5% or 37 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.5% or 34 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'pounds' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1574

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'pounds' in Written Corpus Frequency: #204

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pounds in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pounds in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of pounds in a Sentence

  1. Patricia Heaton:

    Recently I took my son for a college tour in the Midwest … I ate what I felt like eating, i realize if I was still living in Ohio that I ’d be 30 pounds heavier and an alcoholic. There’s something about being there that makes me want to drink beer all day, eat cheese fries and eat stuffed French toast for breakfast.

  2. Nik Pinchbeck:

    It was absolute a shock. I was 31, 6 feet tall and [176 pounds], and I’ve always been fit and healthy. To find out that I only have 20 percent function remaining in both kidneys, I was shocked, my family were shocked. I was three weeks out from my wedding. It was all very unknown and a very scary time.

  3. Ralf Speth:

    A bad Brexit deal would cost Jaguar Land Rover more than 1.2 billion pounds in profit each year. As a result, we would have to drastically adjust our spending profile; we have spent around 50 billion pounds in the UK in the past five years - with plans for a further 80 billion pounds more in the next five, this would be in jeopardy should we be faced with the wrong outcome.

  4. Charlette Bolton:

    Shes so tiny. Shes only 45 to 50 pounds, i just dont know how she made it.

  5. Donald Trump:

    When he said he hit a friend of his in the face with a lock, with a pad lock, right in the face, I say, 'Whoa,' that's pretty bad, and when he said he stabbed somebody with a knife but it hit a belt buckle -- I know all about knives and belt buckles. Belt buckles aren't gonna stop because they can turn, they can twist ... they're not solid especially if somebody's got a couple extra pounds on them.

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