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The surname Cullens

A surname, carried by 1,016 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C452

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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). Cullens is more common than 84.8% of them.

Origin

A surname

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,016 people named Cullens in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 303,883 Americans. That is up 33% since 2000, when the Census counted 762.

#24,593
rank among US surnames
1,016
people in 2010
0.3
per 100,000 Americans
+33.3%
change since 2000 (was #29,261)

Who is named Cullens

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

63% of people named Cullens identified as white (not Hispanic), 31% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 63%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 31%
  • Two or more races 3.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Cullens

Cullens has the Soundex code C452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C452.

Questions

How common is the surname Cullens?
1,016 people in the United States had the surname Cullens in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 303,883 Americans. It ranked 24,593rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cullens?
In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Cullens identified as white (not Hispanic), and 31% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Cullens getting more or less common?
More common. 762 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,016 in 2010, up 33%.