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    The surname Cannaday

    A surname, carried by 1,277 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C530

    Cannaday: #20,709 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cannaday #20,709, 1,277 people Cannaday: #20,709 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cannaday #20,709, 1,277 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cannaday is more common than 87.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,277 people named Cannaday in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 241,774 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,243.

    #20,709
    rank among US surnames
    1,277
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.7%
    change since 2000 (was #19,976)

    Who is named Cannaday

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

    79% of people named Cannaday identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Cannaday

    Cannaday 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 Cannaday?
    1,277 people in the United States had the surname Cannaday in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 241,774 Americans. It ranked 20,709th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cannaday?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Cannaday identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Cannaday getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,243 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,277 in 2010, up 2.7%.