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The surname Elamin

A surname, carried by 1,716 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex E455

Elamin: #16,687 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Elamin #16,687, 1,716 people Elamin: #16,687 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Elamin #16,687, 1,716 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Elamin is more common than 89.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,716 people named Elamin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 179,922 Americans. That is up 31% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,315.

#16,687
rank among US surnames
1,716
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+30.5%
change since 2000 (was #19,128)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,679Kurowski1,717179,817
#16,687Fralick1,716179,922
#16,696Lorence1,715180,027

Who is named Elamin

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

85% of people named Elamin identified as Black (not Hispanic), 6.8% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as two or more races.

  • Black (not Hispanic) 85%
  • White (not Hispanic) 6.8%
  • Two or more races 4.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Elamin

Elamin has the Soundex code E455, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E455.

Questions

How common is the surname Elamin?
1,716 people in the United States had the surname Elamin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 179,922 Americans. It ranked 16,687th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Elamin?
In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Elamin identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 6.8% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Elamin getting more or less common?
More common. 1,315 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,716 in 2010, up 31%.