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The surname Fikes

A surname, carried by 2,359 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex F220

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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). Fikes is more common than 92% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,359 people named Fikes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 130,880 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,315.

#13,010
rank among US surnames
2,359
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+1.9%
change since 2000 (was #12,317)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#13,002Jellison2,361130,769
#13,007Urrea2,360130,824
#13,010Stetler2,359130,880

Who is named Fikes

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

61% of people named Fikes identified as white (not Hispanic), 32% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 61%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 32%
  • Two or more races 3.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Fikes

Fikes has the Soundex code F220, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F220.

Questions

How common is the surname Fikes?
2,359 people in the United States had the surname Fikes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 130,880 Americans. It ranked 13,010th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fikes?
In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Fikes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 32% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Fikes getting more or less common?
More common. 2,315 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,359 in 2010, up 1.9%.