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    The surname Fouse

    A surname, carried by 1,525 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F200

    Fouse: #18,237 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Fouse #18,237, 1,525 people Fouse: #18,237 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Fouse #18,237, 1,525 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fouse is more common than 88.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,525 people named Fouse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 202,456 Americans. That is down 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,596.

    #18,237
    rank among US surnames
    1,525
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -4.4%
    change since 2000 (was #16,562)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,237Shisler1,525202,456
    #18,242Makris1,524202,589
    #18,246Waltrip1,523202,722

    Who is named Fouse

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

    80% of people named Fouse identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 80%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 2.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Fouse

    Fouse has the Soundex code F200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Fouse?
    1,525 people in the United States had the surname Fouse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 202,456 Americans. It ranked 18,237th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fouse?
    In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Fouse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Fouse getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,596 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,525 in 2010, down 4.4%.