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    The surname Guise

    A surname, carried by 1,361 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G200

    Guise: #19,774 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Guise #19,774, 1,361 people Guise: #19,774 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Guise #19,774, 1,361 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Guise is more common than 87.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,361 people named Guise in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 226,852 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,326.

    #19,774
    rank among US surnames
    1,361
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.6%
    change since 2000 (was #19,007)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,774Niswonger1,361226,852
    #19,782Casagrande1,360227,019

    Who is named Guise

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

    79% of people named Guise identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; 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 Guise

    Guise 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 Guise?
    1,361 people in the United States had the surname Guise in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 226,852 Americans. It ranked 19,774th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Guise?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Guise identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Guise getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,326 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,361 in 2010, up 2.6%.