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    The surname Greening

    A surname, carried by 2,282 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G655

    Greening: #13,357 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Greening #13,357, 2,282 people Greening: #13,357 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Greening #13,357, 2,282 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Greening is more common than 91.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,282 people named Greening in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 135,296 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,231.

    #13,357
    rank among US surnames
    2,282
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.3%
    change since 2000 (was #12,711)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,349Starbuck2,284135,178
    #13,356Forst2,283135,237
    #13,357Knobloch2,282135,296
    #13,360Degennaro2,281135,355

    Who is named Greening

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

    90% of people named Greening identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Greening

    Greening has the Soundex code G655, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G655.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Greening?
    2,282 people in the United States had the surname Greening in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 135,296 Americans. It ranked 13,357th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Greening?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Greening identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Greening getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,231 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,282 in 2010, up 2.3%.