The surname Alday
A Spanish place surname, carried by 3,145 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex A430
Origin
Spanish origin
Borrowed from Spanish Alday, a Castilianized habitational surname from Basque Aldai.
Alday is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,145 people named Alday in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 98,170 Americans. That is up 39% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,269.
Who is named Alday
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
53% of people named Alday identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 37% as white (not Hispanic) and 8.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 53%
- White (not Hispanic) 37%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 8.1%
- Two or more races 1.1%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Alday has the Soundex code A430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A430.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Alday come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Alday, a Castilianized habitational surname from Basque Aldai.
- How common is the surname Alday?
- 3,145 people in the United States had the surname Alday in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 98,170 Americans. It ranked 10,250th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Alday?
- In the 2010 Census, 53% of people named Alday identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 37% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Alday?
- Alday is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Alday getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,269 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,145 in 2010, up 39%.