Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Allis

    A surname, carried by 1,360 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex A420

    Allis: #19,782 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Allis #19,782, 1,360 people Allis: #19,782 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Allis #19,782, 1,360 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Allis is more common than 87.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,360 people named Allis in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 227,019 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,234.

    #19,782
    rank among US surnames
    1,360
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.2%
    change since 2000 (was #20,099)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,774Niswonger1,361226,852
    #19,782Casagrande1,360227,019

    Who is named Allis

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    90% of people named Allis identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.2%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Allis

    Allis has the Soundex code A420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Allis?
    1,360 people in the United States had the surname Allis in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 227,019 Americans. It ranked 19,782nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Allis?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Allis identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Allis getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,234 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,360 in 2010, up 10%.