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    The surname Cail

    A surname, carried by 1,353 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C400

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cail 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 1,353 people named Cail in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 228,193 Americans. That is up 21% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,119.

    #19,865
    rank among US surnames
    1,353
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +20.9%
    change since 2000 (was #21,694)

    Who is named Cail

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

    79% of people named Cail identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Cail

    Cail has the Soundex code C400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Cail?
    1,353 people in the United States had the surname Cail in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 228,193 Americans. It ranked 19,865th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cail?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Cail identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Cail getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,119 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,353 in 2010, up 21%.