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    The surname Cavalier

    A surname, carried by 3,285 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C146

    Cavalier: #9,848 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cavalier #9,848, 3,285 people Cavalier: #9,848 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cavalier #9,848, 3,285 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cavalier is more common than 93.9% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,285 people named Cavalier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 93,986 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,318.

    #9,848
    rank among US surnames
    3,285
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1%
    change since 2000 (was #9,059)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,844Schuetz3,28893,901
    #9,845Buzzard3,28793,929
    #9,846Mosquera3,28693,958
    #9,848Cavalier3,28593,986
    #9,850Bittle3,28494,015
    #9,853Morello3,28394,044

    Who is named Cavalier

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

    80% of people named Cavalier identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 80%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.0%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • 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 Cavalier

    Cavalier has the Soundex code C146, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C146.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Cavalier?
    3,285 people in the United States had the surname Cavalier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 93,986 Americans. It ranked 9,848th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cavalier?
    In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Cavalier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Cavalier getting more or less common?
    Less common. 3,318 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,285 in 2010, down 1.0%.