How common is the surname Bilyeu?

3,091 people in the United States had the surname Bilyeu in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,885 Americans. It ranked 10,414th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bilyeu?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Bilyeu identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Bilyeu getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,097 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,091 in 2010, down 0.2%.

The surname Bilyeu

A French surname, carried by 3,091 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex B400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bilyeu is more common than 93.6% of them.

Origin

French origin

A surname from French.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,091 people named Bilyeu in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 99,885 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,097.

#10,414

rank among US surnames

3,091

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

-0.2%

change since 2000 (was #9,630)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,410	Albaugh	3,094	99,788
#10,411	Collings	3,093	99,821
#10,413	McDavid	3,092	99,853
#10,414	Houseman	3,091	99,885
#10,416	Diana	3,090	99,918

Who is named Bilyeu

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

93% of people named Bilyeu identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 2.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bilyeu

Bilyeu has the Soundex code B400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B400.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Bilyeu come from?: Bilyeu is French in origin.
How common is the surname Bilyeu?: 3,091 people in the United States had the surname Bilyeu in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,885 Americans. It ranked 10,414th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bilyeu?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Bilyeu identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bilyeu getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,097 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,091 in 2010, down 0.2%.