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    The surname Guile

    A French surname, carried by 680 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G400

    Guile: #33,530 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Guile #33,530, 680 people Guile: #33,530 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Guile #33,530, 680 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Guile is more common than 79.3% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    * As an English, Scottish, and French surname, borrowed from French guile. * Also as an English surname, variant of Gill. * Possibly also Americanized from the German surname Geil.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 680 people named Guile in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 454,038 Americans. That is down 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 688.

    #33,530
    rank among US surnames
    680
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.2%
    change since 2000 (was #31,738)

    Who is named Guile

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

    90% of people named Guile identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Guile

    Guile has the Soundex code G400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G400.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Guile come from?
    * As an English, Scottish, and French surname, borrowed from French guile. * Also as an English surname, variant of Gill. * Possibly also Americanized from the German surname Geil.
    How common is the surname Guile?
    680 people in the United States had the surname Guile in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 454,038 Americans. It ranked 33,530th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Guile?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Guile identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Guile getting more or less common?
    Less common. 688 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 680 in 2010, down 1.2%.