The surname Foye
A surname, carried by 2,127 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex F000
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,127 people named Foye in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 145,155 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,126.
#14,127
rank among US surnames
2,127
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
0%
change since 2000 (was #13,175)
Who is named Foye
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
56% of people named Foye identified as white (not Hispanic), 38% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 56%
- Black (not Hispanic) 38%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Foye has the Soundex code F000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F000.
Questions
- How common is the surname Foye?
- 2,127 people in the United States had the surname Foye in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 145,155 Americans. It ranked 14,127th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Foye?
- In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Foye identified as white (not Hispanic), and 38% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Foye getting more or less common?
- About as common. 2,126 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,127 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.