The surname Eaves
An English surname, carried by 7,902 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex E120
Origin
English origin
English surname, from Middle English atte evese (“at the border, edge”), from Old English efes. Compare Reeves. Also sometimes a variant of Eve.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 7,902 people named Eaves in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 39,072 Americans. That is up 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,674.
Who is named Eaves
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
83% of people named Eaves identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 83%
- Black (not Hispanic) 11%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Eaves
Eaves has the Soundex code E120, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E120.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Eaves come from?
- English surname, from Middle English atte evese (“at the border, edge”), from Old English efes. Compare Reeves. Also sometimes a variant of Eve.
- How common is the surname Eaves?
- 7,902 people in the United States had the surname Eaves in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,072 Americans. It ranked 4,489th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Eaves?
- In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Eaves identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Eaves getting more or less common?
- More common. 7,674 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,902 in 2010, up 3.0%.