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    The surname Guess

    A surname, carried by 7,871 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G200

    Guess: #4,507 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Guess #4,507, 7,871 people Guess: #4,507 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Guess #4,507, 7,871 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Guess is more common than 97.2% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 7,871 people named Guess in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 39,226 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,569.

    #4,507
    rank among US surnames
    7,871
    people in 2010
    2.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4%
    change since 2000 (was #4,344)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,498Garman7,88439,161
    #4,500Sanches7,88339,166
    #4,501Gunther7,88239,171
    #4,502Ethridge7,87839,191
    #4,503Arriola7,87739,196
    #4,504Heilman7,87639,201
    #4,505Prentice7,87439,211

    Who is named Guess

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

    73% of people named Guess identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 73%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 20%
    • Two or more races 2.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Guess

    Guess has the Soundex code G200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Guess?
    7,871 people in the United States had the surname Guess in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,226 Americans. It ranked 4,507th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Guess?
    In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Guess identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Guess getting more or less common?
    More common. 7,569 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,871 in 2010, up 4.0%.