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    The surname Canaday

    A surname, carried by 3,470 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C530

    Canaday: #9,375 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Canaday #9,375, 3,470 people Canaday: #9,375 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Canaday #9,375, 3,470 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Canaday is more common than 94.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,470 people named Canaday in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 88,976 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,361.

    #9,375
    rank among US surnames
    3,470
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.2%
    change since 2000 (was #8,945)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,366Wear3,47388,899
    #9,368Liss3,47288,924
    #9,373Recker3,47188,950
    #9,375Canaday3,47088,976
    #9,378Foxworth3,46989,001
    #9,381Frechette3,46889,027
    #9,382Hennings3,46789,053

    Who is named Canaday

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

    87% of people named Canaday identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.6%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Canaday

    Canaday has the Soundex code C530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C530.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Canaday?
    3,470 people in the United States had the surname Canaday in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 88,976 Americans. It ranked 9,375th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Canaday?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Canaday identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Canaday getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,361 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,470 in 2010, up 3.2%.