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    The surname Fields

    A surname, carried by 107,522 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F432

    Fields: #288 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Fields #288, 107,522 people Fields: #288 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott Fields #288, 107,522 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fields is more common than 99.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 107,522 people named Fields in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 2,871 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 103,242.

    #288
    rank among US surnames
    107,522
    people in 2010
    36
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.1%
    change since 2000 (was #264)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #279Garrett110,6972,789
    #280Burton110,5292,793
    #281Fuller110,1162,804
    #282Wang109,8832,810
    #283Weber109,4332,821
    #284Welch108,9872,833
    #285Rojas108,4212,848

    Who is named Fields

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

    58% of people named Fields identified as white (not Hispanic), 36% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 58%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 36%
    • Two or more races 2.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Fields

    Fields has the Soundex code F432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F432.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Fields?
    107,522 people in the United States had the surname Fields in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 2,871 Americans. It ranked 288th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fields?
    In the 2010 Census, 58% of people named Fields identified as white (not Hispanic), and 36% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Fields getting more or less common?
    More common. 103,242 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 107,522 in 2010, up 4.1%.