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The surname Arey

A surname, carried by 1,395 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex A600

Arey: #19,379 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Arey #19,379, 1,395 people Arey: #19,379 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Arey #19,379, 1,395 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Arey is more common than 88.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,395 people named Arey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,323 Americans. That is down 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,601.

#19,379
rank among US surnames
1,395
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-12.9%
change since 2000 (was #16,525)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#19,372Crass1,396221,164
#19,379Persad1,395221,323

Who is named Arey

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

92% of people named Arey identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
  • Two or more races 1.3%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Arey

Arey has the Soundex code A600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A600.

Questions

How common is the surname Arey?
1,395 people in the United States had the surname Arey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,323 Americans. It ranked 19,379th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Arey?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Arey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Arey getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,601 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,395 in 2010, down 13%.