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The surname Grapes

A place surname, carried by 662 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G612

Grapes: #34,272 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Grapes #34,272, 662 people Grapes: #34,272 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Grapes #34,272, 662 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Grapes is more common than 78.9% of them.

Origin

Perhaps a habitational surname from a house bearing the sign of a bunch of grapes.

Grapes is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 662 people named Grapes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 466,383 Americans. That is down 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 670.

#34,272
rank among US surnames
662
people in 2010
0.2
per 100,000 Americans
-1.2%
change since 2000 (was #32,380)

Who is named Grapes

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

96% of people named Grapes identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Two or more races 2.4%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Grapes

Grapes has the Soundex code G612, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G612.

Questions

Where does the surname Grapes come from?
Perhaps a habitational surname from a house bearing the sign of a bunch of grapes.
How common is the surname Grapes?
662 people in the United States had the surname Grapes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 466,383 Americans. It ranked 34,272nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Grapes?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Grapes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as two or more races.
What type of surname is Grapes?
Grapes is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Grapes getting more or less common?
Less common. 670 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 662 in 2010, down 1.2%.