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    The surname Flax

    A surname, carried by 1,967 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F420

    Flax: #15,015 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Flax #15,015, 1,967 people Flax: #15,015 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Flax #15,015, 1,967 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Flax is more common than 90.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,967 people named Flax in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 156,963 Americans. That is up 22% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,607.

    #15,015
    rank among US surnames
    1,967
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +22.4%
    change since 2000 (was #16,471)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,015Gerth1,967156,963
    #15,020Stallman1,966157,042

    Who is named Flax

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

    74% of people named Flax identified as white (not Hispanic), 21% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 74%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 21%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Flax

    Flax has the Soundex code F420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Flax?
    1,967 people in the United States had the surname Flax in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 156,963 Americans. It ranked 15,015th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Flax?
    In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Flax identified as white (not Hispanic), and 21% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Flax getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,607 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,967 in 2010, up 22%.