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The surname Fleury

A French surname, carried by 4,934 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F460

Fleury: #6,835 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Fleury #6,835, 4,934 people Fleury: #6,835 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Fleury #6,835, 4,934 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fleury is more common than 95.8% of them.

Origin

French origin

Borrowed from French Fleury.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,934 people named Fleury in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 62,575 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,462.

#6,835
rank among US surnames
4,934
people in 2010
1.7
per 100,000 Americans
+10.6%
change since 2000 (was #6,934)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#6,829Ahumada4,93762,537
#6,831Aikens4,93662,550
#6,833Shih4,93562,562
#6,835Fleury4,93462,575
#6,836Habib4,93262,600
#6,837Hallock4,93062,626

Who is named Fleury

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

76% of people named Fleury identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 76%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.3%
  • Two or more races 2.2%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Fleury

Fleury has the Soundex code F460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F460.

Other French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Fleury come from?
Borrowed from French Fleury.
How common is the surname Fleury?
4,934 people in the United States had the surname Fleury in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 62,575 Americans. It ranked 6,835th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fleury?
In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Fleury identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Fleury getting more or less common?
More common. 4,462 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,934 in 2010, up 11%.