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    The surname Bills

    A surname, carried by 10,051 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B420

    Bills: #3,552 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Bills #3,552, 10,051 people Bills: #3,552 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bills #3,552, 10,051 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bills is more common than 97.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 10,051 people named Bills in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 30,718 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,722.

    #3,552
    rank among US surnames
    10,051
    people in 2010
    3.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.4%
    change since 2000 (was #3,363)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,543Moffitt10,07030,660
    #3,544Schweitzer10,06830,666
    #3,545Caro10,06430,678
    #3,547Vines10,06130,687
    #3,548Perdomo10,05830,697
    #3,550Eggleston10,05730,700
    #3,551Shi10,05530,706

    Who is named Bills

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

    81% of people named Bills identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    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 Bills

    Bills has the Soundex code B420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Bills?
    10,051 people in the United States had the surname Bills in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 30,718 Americans. It ranked 3,552nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bills?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Bills identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Bills getting more or less common?
    More common. 9,722 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,051 in 2010, up 3.4%.