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The surname Fye

A surname, carried by 2,410 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex F000

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fye is more common than 92.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,410 people named Fye in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 128,110 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,435.

#12,795
rank among US surnames
2,410
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
-1%
change since 2000 (was #11,781)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#12,789Sailor2,412128,004
#12,794Scalzo2,411128,057
#12,795Schueller2,410128,110
#12,802Tanguay2,409128,163

Who is named Fye

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

90% of people named Fye identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 90%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 6.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
  • Two or more races 1.2%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Fye

Fye 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 Fye?
2,410 people in the United States had the surname Fye in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 128,110 Americans. It ranked 12,795th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fye?
In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Fye identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Fye getting more or less common?
Less common. 2,435 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,410 in 2010, down 1.0%.