How common is the surname Asay?

2,227 people in the United States had the surname Asay in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 138,637 Americans. It ranked 13,603rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Asay?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Asay identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Asay getting more or less common?

More common. 2,131 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,227 in 2010, up 4.5%.

The surname Asay

A surname, carried by 2,227 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex A200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Asay is more common than 91.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,227 people named Asay in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 138,637 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,131.

#13,603

rank among US surnames

2,227

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+4.5%

change since 2000 (was #13,153)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,597	Ealey	2,229	138,513
#13,600	Gamblin	2,228	138,575
#13,603	Cassity	2,227	138,637
#13,612	Rowlands	2,226	138,700

Who is named Asay

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

93% of people named Asay identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

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 Asay

Askey

Asay has the Soundex code A200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A200.

Questions

How common is the surname Asay?: 2,227 people in the United States had the surname Asay in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 138,637 Americans. It ranked 13,603rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Asay?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Asay identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Asay getting more or less common?: More common. 2,131 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,227 in 2010, up 4.5%.