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    The surname Flakes

    A surname, carried by 1,397 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F422

    Flakes: #19,364 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Flakes #19,364, 1,397 people Flakes: #19,364 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Flakes #19,364, 1,397 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Flakes is more common than 88.1% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,397 people named Flakes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,006 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,208.

    #19,364
    rank among US surnames
    1,397
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +15.6%
    change since 2000 (was #20,436)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,364Vlahos1,397221,006
    #19,372Crass1,396221,164

    Who is named Flakes

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

    76% of people named Flakes identified as Black (not Hispanic), 16% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 76%
    • White (not Hispanic) 16%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.2%
    • Two or more races 2.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Flakes

    Flakes has the Soundex code F422, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F422.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Flakes?
    1,397 people in the United States had the surname Flakes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,006 Americans. It ranked 19,364th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Flakes?
    In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Flakes identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 16% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Flakes getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,208 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,397 in 2010, up 16%.